qmk-dactyl-manuform-a/keyboards/foostan/cornelius/keymaps/gipsy-king

Gipsy-King's Cornelius layout

Common typing only needs a base and a symbols layer. Layer changes are on the thumbs including shift and non-english variants.

The importance of having shift on your thumbs is that you don't need to press some letters with pinky OR ring, depending on shift.

Base QWERTY layer

• Tab, Backspace, Space, Ctrl/Alt/Mod are similar to a generic keyboard.
• Esc is like when you remap CapsLock to Esc on a generic keyboard (vim).
• Enter is on right thumb and raises Symbol layer on hold, because you rarely hold.
• Shifts are on both thumbs!
• Leftmost thumb changes to Xmonad window management layer.
• Rightmost thumb is Right-Alt which is for us-intl-altgr layout (althoug I use kmonad to universally map international characters on all keyboards).
• - and = are on the lower pinkies.
• F20 is mic-mute on my thinkpad laptop.

Symbol layer (Raise)

• Top row is numbers, bottom row are their symbols. Most people do it the other way 'round.
• Middle row has curly brackets, and some navigation and arrows.
• Square brackets are on the lower pinkies.
• ```~|`` are places aroung top/outer corners.

Xmonad layer (Window management)

I use Xmonad to completely manage windows with just my keyboard. This layer accommodates most shortcuts.

Fn layer

Lastly, some macros, mousekeys (not used, really), some media keys, and the function-keys (I use them maybe once in a decade).