TK820 review

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last posted Sept. 30, 2013, 12:05 p.m.
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General quality

  • Was actually really surprised when I didn't even have to do Bluetooth negotiation

  • The feel of the keys is beautiful, it's exactly what I want

  • The trackpad is more sensitive than the Apple Magic Trackpad. This is a good thing, since on Linux the Magic is way too slow.

  • The most annoying thing so far is that it makes a weird bouncing, twanging noise when I type, as if something plastic is vibrating against something else. This is not what I want from an expensive keyboard.

Personal hangups

  • The reason I didn't go for an Apple keyboard was the stupid delay they've hardwired in to Caps Lock. Since I use Caps Lock as a Control key, that means I'm slowed down when editing text. This keyboard doesn't have that problem.

  • Another bug in the Apple keyboards is that Caps Lock + Shift + Tab doesn't send an event. The TK820 does, so, yay, I can switch tabs in my browser again.

  • Fn + Caps Lock is Scroll Lock. OK.

  • It doesn't use Synaptics on Linux, so I've got no idea how to invert scrolling

  • I know the xmodmap hack, but that doesn't work on Gnome apps
  • Some people talk about a "natural scrolling" setting in dconf, but it's not there on my 12.04 desktop

Gotchas for Apple users

  • Fn & Ctrl are swapped from the Apple keyboard layout

  • Arrow keys are less far to the right

  • My right hand wants to move further right to reach for the Trackpad