Usability for touch typers: Keeping fingers on F and J

[Thomas Güttler]

Am 19.11.2014 um 10:16 schrieb Chow Loong Jin:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 04:27:51PM +0100, Thomas Güttler wrote:
>> [...]
>> I have seen such keyboards before, but I don't want to leave my concave lenovo trackpoint.
>> This way the switch between keyboard is very small.
>>
>> I have not seen ergonomic keyboards with a trackpoint yet.
>>
>> But even with a ergonomic keyboards with a trackpoint there are a lot of
>> small places where ergonmic work with ubuntu could be improved.
> 
> But Thinkpad keyboards *are* ergonomic. ;-) You just need to figure out how ton
> keep your wrist straight and let your arm follow your hand while typing.
> 
> Trackpoints aren't ergonomic, though. Those things are terrible for the tendons
> on the back of your hand because of how much pressure you need to put into them.
> I still use mine heavily though, with an aggressive sensitivity setting.


I replaced the convex trackpoint with a concav trackpoint and it's much better.
You need much less force. There exist several concav trackpoints. Some
are good, but some are too flat. 

  Thomas

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