Curly bracket key

MNT Pocket Reform
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Hi,
Any idea where is the curly bracket key on the pocket reform?
I am using the european layout I think.

Thanks.
Lloyd

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For { press Hyper + Shift + O and } press Hyper + Shift + P.

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Yep, I found those as well, but I am curious about where the tilde key is. Anyone know?

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At Hyper + Shift + Esc

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Check out the “input devices” section of the manual! I often have it open in the browser while I’m using the device and have been slowly learning.

You can see the pdf version here https://mntre.com/documentation/pocket-reform-handbook.pdf but the html version is much more useful and should be on your device (and so can be used offline etc). Open it with pocket-reform-handbook in the terminal and bookmark it in your browser.

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I’ve had trouble with f12. I can use f11 with hyper-q, but hyper-w for f12 doesn’t seem to work.

Any ideas?

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You may have another program catching the keystroke. you could try a keycode reporting site like. https://www.toptal.com/developers/keycode

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I tried the site, hyper-shift q gives f11, as it should
hyper-shift e gives an event.code of f13 (unexpectedly)
but hyper-shift w gives nothing.

f12 doesn’t even work on the text login screen (labeled as “power” as an option)

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F12 works fine on my pocket reform (hyper-w).

If w and hyper are both working on your keyboard, its unlikely to be a hardware problem. This may be a firmware bug from an early keyboard firmware.

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I suggest trying to update the keyboard firmware to the latest version to see if it fixes the problem with f12.

The latest keyboard firmware will be here Reform / MNT Pocket Reform · GitLab

It looks like the compiled recent firmwares can be gotten from here

or directly here at the moment
https://source.mnt.re/reform/pocket-reform/-/jobs/6894/artifacts/download?file_type=archive

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This does include the keyboard firmware, however the script included does not actual update the keyboard controller.

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Right, you can download the complete pocket reform repository, install the tools to build the firmware, then build and update as described in the manual.

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That sounds pretty involved. I’ll have to try when I have some spare time.

As far as the firmware I have. It’s SYSR120240830

and HID20240416, which I take it isn’t the latest.

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You may want to follow the instructions from the manual for keyboard and trackball firmware. Section 7.4.2
If you don’t edit the matrix.h file it should flash the original layout.
You will need an external keyboard and a tool to flip the main power switch off and on. ( about 15 minutes)

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Something that had puzzled me. For the benefit of others, that section number appears to only be in the PDF, not the HTML version of the handbook. Same with @pff 's suggestion in case anyone else was wondering. Will look into this soon.