Hhkb Life 2 For Mac
This never used to be the case, but lately when I wake up my iMac, my HHKB is unresponsive until I unplug it and plug it back in. It definitely didn't do this before the past month or so, was always just connected all the time. The way I'm waking up the computer is to click the mouse, which is wireless, and runs through a little wireless receiver which is plugged into one of the two USB ports on the back of the HHKB. So that tells me that at the very least, the receiver is still connecting to the mouse (and the computer) enough to make it work.
But even so, the HHKB stays unresponsive to typing until I unplug that cable and replug it. I'm doing that from the keyboard end, btw, since it's easier to reach. Also of note: occasionally, the mouse will suddenly stop working right in the middle of whatever I'm doing. The fix is to just unplug and replug that little wireless receiver, then all is well again. I'm not connecting via a hub of any kind, just one of the iMac's built-in USB ports. I've tried restarting the computer.
edit 1/18/18 - this seems to be the solution to the problem, pasting it in immediately below. Registering just for this post. I had the same problem with my HHKB Pro2 Type S for months. A thread on reddit from u/cotton100 saved me - Quote: I asked PFU and they replied that I should turn off the switch 6 if there is at least one device connected to the computer/mac that supports 'Wake Up' feature.
And this is specified somewhere in the document even though I couldn't find yet. So, try turning off the switch 6 and waking up Mac with other device.
I have tested this and it all worked properly. Point to note, you cannot connect your mouse to your HHKB USB in this case. This never used to be the case, but lately when I wake up my iMac, my HHKB is unresponsive until I unplug it and plug it back in. It definitely didn't do this before the past month or so, was always just connected all the time. The way I'm waking up the computer is to click the mouse, which is wireless, and runs through a little wireless receiver which is plugged into one of the two USB ports on the back of the HHKB. So that tells me that at the very least, the receiver is still connecting to the mouse (and the computer) enough to make it work. But even so, the HHKB stays unresponsive to typing until I unplug that cable and replug it.
I'm doing that from the keyboard end, btw, since it's easier to reach. Also of note: occasionally, the mouse will suddenly stop working right in the middle of whatever I'm doing. The fix is to just unplug and replug that little wireless receiver, then all is well again.
I'm not connecting via a hub of any kind, just one of the iMac's built-in USB ports. I've tried restarting the computer. I've experienced a similar issue on Windows which was related to the power settings for USB. Can't recall if there are similar settings for Mac.
The worst are the issues caused by Fast Boot glitches where the machine won't respond to any USB input after waking up (to do with performing a hybrid hybernation or something) and if the drivers are still in memory it will reject any of the 'duplicate' devices trying to connect. During this it's also impossible to enter UEFI on boot. Had to buy a PS/2 keyboard just to get things functioning again recently. The time before last that this occurred I made sure to pair my phone via Bluetooth so I could use its keyboard and touchpad to control Windows, which now allows me to use shutdown /r to perform a full shutdown and reboot. Anybody using this? I can't tell from the release notes whether this is specifically geared to address the issue I posted or whether it just happens to be an updated version of the (totally irrelevant, in my experience.) driver software.
The driver install notes say 'By installing this driver you can download Eject, VolUp etc' but these keys work just fine on OS X (er, MacOS) without the driver. Volume and mute keys all work right out of the box the way they're labelled. Furthermore, FN+O and FN+P keys map to brightness down/up, respectively, because they seem to map to F14 and F15, which the OS assigns by default to brightness. Anybody using this? I can't tell from the release notes whether this is specifically geared to address the issue I posted or whether it just happens to be an updated version of the (totally irrelevant, in my experience.) driver software. The driver install notes say 'By installing this driver you can download Eject, VolUp etc' but these keys work just fine on OS X (er, MacOS) without the driver. Volume and mute keys all work right out of the box the way they're labelled.
Furthermore, FN+O and FN+P keys map to brightness down/up, respectively, because they seem to map to F14 and F15, which the OS assigns by default to brightness. Anybody using this?
I can't tell from the release notes whether this is specifically geared to address the issue I posted or whether it just happens to be an updated version of the (totally irrelevant, in my experience.) driver software. The driver install notes say 'By installing this driver you can download Eject, VolUp etc' but these keys work just fine on OS X (er, MacOS) without the driver. Volume and mute keys all work right out of the box the way they're labelled. Furthermore, FN+O and FN+P keys map to brightness down/up, respectively, because they seem to map to F14 and F15, which the OS assigns by default to brightness. Registering just for this post. I had the same problem with my HHKB Pro2 Type S for months. A thread on reddit from u/cotton100 saved me - Quote: I asked PFU and they replied that I should turn off the switch 6 if there is at least one device connected to the computer/mac that supports 'Wake Up' feature.
And this is specified somewhere in the document even though I couldn't find yet. So, try turning off the switch 6 and waking up Mac with other device. I have tested this and it all worked properly. Point to note, you cannot connect your mouse to your HHKB USB in this case. While I am not experiencing this problem (I'm on a Mac, but I don't own an HHKB), I'm always happy when these little bugs are solved. Macs don't always receive some of the love they deserve when it comes to support. Case-in-point was the length of time it took Apple and Logitech to work through their issues with Bluetooth connectivity in Sierra.
Hhkb Lite 2 For Mac
There was a change in how the BT packets were being recognized in macOS apparently which caused Logitech's mice to lose connectivity randomly when in BT mode. The only fix for the longest time was either use it with the wifi dongle (causing you to lose a USB port which can suck if you're on a laptop) or turning the mouse off until the BT disconnects and then turning it back on and waiting for it to be recognized again. I love my MX Master mouse and wasn't going to give it up, so I ended up buying a USB hub to add to my MacBook Air docking station so I could keep the mouse in wifi mode. I believe they updated the firmware though and all is good now.
I'll actually be picking up an MX Master V2 here soon as it comes in white now and I have the stone version which doesn't match any of my desk accessories haha. Plus, Logi's new Flow feature is dope and will easily come in handy for me. Anyway, sorry for the off-topic, but my main point is I'm happy to see a resolution to a Mac-specific problem; a lot of times they get overlooked. I can't blame your Mac. When I first saw a HHKB, I didn't recognize it either.
I was sure it was some kind of toy. Then somebody explained it was an actual keyboard, but without the modifier and navigation keys for which we could thank decades of progress in keyboard design, so you had to hold down a lot more keys on it to do anything.
At that point I decided my life was already hard and complicated enough without making it twice as hard to type, too. (I take it the 'Happy' part is sarcastic.?). I can't blame your Mac. When I first saw a HHKB, I didn't recognize it either.
I was sure it was some kind of toy. Then somebody explained it was an actual keyboard, but without the modifier and navigation keys for which we could thank decades of progress in keyboard design, so you had to hold down a lot more keys on it to do anything. At that point I decided my life was already hard and complicated enough without making it twice as hard to type, too. (I take it the 'Happy' part is sarcastic.?). Registering just for this post. I had the same problem with my HHKB Pro2 Type S for months. A thread on reddit from u/cotton100 saved me - Quote: I asked PFU and they replied that I should turn off the switch 6 if there is at least one device connected to the computer/mac that supports 'Wake Up' feature.
And this is specified somewhere in the document even though I couldn't find yet. So, try turning off the switch 6 and waking up Mac with other device. I have tested this and it all worked properly. Point to note, you cannot connect your mouse to your HHKB USB in this case. Registering just for this post. I had the same problem with my HHKB Pro2 Type S for months.
A thread on reddit from u/cotton100 saved me - Quote: I asked PFU and they replied that I should turn off the switch 6 if there is at least one device connected to the computer/mac that supports 'Wake Up' feature. And this is specified somewhere in the document even though I couldn't find yet. So, try turning off the switch 6 and waking up Mac with other device. I have tested this and it all worked properly. Point to note, you cannot connect your mouse to your HHKB USB in this case.
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Who am I and what do I do? I’m a developer for, an Austin advertising agency with some. I’m part of a very small three person team that handles all the front- and back-end development for digital projects that come through here. I went to school to be a graphic designer, but switched teams my senior year.
Because of this, I’m able to pick up a lot of digital production work as well, which means a lot of hopping between designing and coding. What is your current setup?
I’m on a 2012 24″ iMac flanked by two displays. The other developer and I are in a cold war of adding monitors. Because I added the iMac recently and haven’t had time to migrate absolutely everything, I usually have at least one laptop open next to me for a total of four screens (13,478,400 total pixels!) at any given time. The coolest thing about my setup is my keyboards. I swap between two — a or a custom-built, depending on how nerdy I’m feeling. I started getting about two years ago, and finally put a stop to the addiction with the HHKB, a wedding present from my brother. Mechanicals provide a better tactile feedback than traditional rubber-dome keyboards and make a really satisfying sound while you type.
Since I very literally have my hands on this thing the whole time I’m at work, I thought it made sense to put some thought into what keyboard I used. The Ergodox is an open-sourced DIY ergonomic keyboard kit you can get from periodically. It’s a split-hand design meaning you can have your hands further apart and your wrists at a better angle. The thumb clusters also put your very-flexible thumbs to better use than just whacking a spacebar all the time. It’s a daunting project and requires some soldering skills (surface-mount diodes abound!), but it fosters a “there are many like it, but this one is mine” kind of pride in a developer’s most essential tool. The HHKB is a 60% keyboard (no numpad, and you access the arrow keys by holding down a function key and using ,;, ', and /), which gives me more room on my desk and less distance for my right hand to travel to my mouse. It uses (the Ergodox and most other mechanicals use Cherry MX switches), which have a very specific ‘thocky’ feel that nothing else quite mimics.
I have a cutting mat on my desk, inspired by Gear Patrol post, which cleans easily and works as a great mousepad. I also have a strip of arduino-controllable RGB LED lighting behind my desk and a glass head full of twinkling Christmas lights because, you know. The shelves above my desk house my library of code books (they give me a +10 developer-looks-smart bonus), and piles of nerdy knick-knacks, a perk of working at a place with a fun culture. What software do you use and for what do you use it? I hop between, and Mail pretty regularly. My job usually requires gettings loads of PSDs from designers, cleaning up the files, exporting assets, and then building out a site from them.
I could write a massive tome about the software I use for development, but since there’s a new hot post about the modern front-end developer’s stack every week, I’ll leave it to others to go into depth. Most of my time is spent in, hands down my favorite all-around text editor for coding. I love it for the of super useful plugins, and with some careful time spent choosing plugins, you can custom-build as rich an IDE as the webdev community can expect for a while. I use iTerm2 as my terminal, and it seems like the majority of the other tools I use are at the command line. Compared to the productivity world, the app landscape for developers is composed mostly of lots of little command line tools that you customize yourself and build for specific tasks.
Two hot programs like that that I use often are gulp and grunt, JavaScript-based ‘task runners’ that take care of things like converting files over, combining templates, and hosting servers for local testing. One of the neat things I use that stands out is: a mouse-less, command-line based text editor.
It has a famously daunting learning curve, and watching a pro use it makes it seem like they’re controlling the cursor with their mind rather than key commands. I sometimes feel brave enough to use it right in the terminal, and sometimes I fall back to, but I always use inside Sublime Text. The learning curve truly is vertical (one day it just clicks), but the longer and more consistently you use it, the more it makes sense — and it really is that fast. I also have to give a shout-out to and, probably my two most-used apps that aren’t listed above. It’s the perfect one-two punch for image assets, and I use them constantly. Jpeg Mini has an awesome up-to-the-limit lossy compression algorithm, and ImageOptim does some serious magic losslessly stripping other info out of jpegs, gifs, and pngs. If you make websites, these two tools are ESSENTIAL to crunch down your assets to the absolute smallest they can be.
I use for system, terminal, and vim settings (things like.bashrc,.vimrc — dotfiles) and plugins because I appreciate when someone has opinions and doesn’t care whether they’re wrong. Also, I’m too trusting with shell access, but mostly I installed these settings long ago and just got used to them. It’s a great package of plugins for vim, and it goes a long way to make your terminal experience as vim-y as possible, as well as some other very handy tweaks to vanilla OS X that are nice for development. I’m plain-text as much as possible.
I don’t want to leave ST3 or vim if I don’t have to, so I have an rule that saves.txt and.md files saved to a specific Dropbox folder to Evernote, and even a that lets me write markdown and save it to Evernote. I also use wherever I’m writing, and I use wherever it’s supported. On the traditional productivity end of the spectrum, I use (because it integrates with IFTTT), or my notebook to keep track of what I need to do.
I abuse to track and remember basically any website I come across that I have the vaugest possibility of wanting to remember. Even though Spotlight is looking similar to it, I’m sticking with. My menu bar is chock-full of little apps — for network and CPU meters, for all of my commonly-typed phrases (lots of client website URLs), for quick special characters, and for grabbing colors. How would your ideal setup look and function?
I’m getting very close to my perfect setup. When I had fewer monitors and a retina Macbook Pro, I rocked the with great success. I’d really like to find a way to raise this thing up, but I think it would involve a suspension bridge. When I got the Ergodox, I had this dream of somehow attaching them to the arms of my chair so I could lean back and code in some sort of mission-control captain’s-chair thing. That’s a slippery slope I don’t plan on heading down because it ends in a motorized dev-command battle chair, and me gaining 300 pounds because I never have to get up anymore. All of this aside, I wanted to work at McJ when I was in high school, and this is absolutely my dream job.
I was lucky enough to get this right out of college, and even if my setup was a mop and bucket, I’d be content. There are more Sweet Setup interviews right.