My god, unplug the USB or just turn off the keyboard. Simple.
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I bought an expensive mechanical keyboard. It is the bane of my existence.
Oversensitive little princess that needs its precious little keycaps polished every other week to stop it from double tapping itself, and when that doesn't work you have to program it not to hiccup, and yet it still does.
Never used to have this problem with the cheap plastic ones I used to buy.
Dont buy into the mechanical keyboard fad. It's a scam for idiots like myself who think pretty LEDs will solve their nonexistent problems.
I have a mechanical keyboard and have double click issues. I just kinda press down the keys really hard until they stop double clicking...
Is there a software solution for this? Like something that prevents double clicking by filtering keyboard inputs? ^for^ ^Wayland,^ ^on^ ^Linux?^
I've owned many boards and have never heard of such issues. That sounds like a really cheap one, or inexperienced company.
I've never had issues with many switches between Cherry, Kailh, Gateron, etc
A lot of the better brands include LEDs too. It's just another checkbox on the product comparison sheet. Not like you can't shut em off anyway
Keychron Q1 Max. Google it, double press and keyboard chatter is a recurring problem.
They even released a new firmware recently specifically to tackle the problem, and still it persists
Your mistakes was buying for the leds and not the switches. I have one with mx cherry blues, it is built like a tank.
I got banana switches. Gutter shite.
I have a mechanical keeb and cleaned it once in the last year I think you purchased a PoS
What keyboard did you get?
I would steer clear of gaming mechanicals now but I've switched to Keychron and I love it.
You're supposed to clean your keyboard?
I bought one with lights and it's a glorious display case for my collection of dead skin, crumbs and stray pubes.
How are your pubes getting near your k--
wait, no I don't want the answer to that question.
Luckily, my Keyboard is so dirty that I need to pull off all keycaps anyway.
Just try to clean the keyboard on a MacBook, though. If you shut it down, it will start back up again as soon as you start pressing keys 😅
Esterline make specialised keyboards that are specifically for sterile environments which have this feature. You press a button, the keys are ignored and you can wipe the keyboard down.
Sounds like a mouthwash company
Cybertruck is far ahead
There were two HDMI ports. (I selected the correct one)
Why would you be pressing down on the keys anyway? Just remove the caps so you can ACTUALLY clean the keyboard.
This might just be my keyboard specifically, but I broke some of the caps doing this and had to special-order replace them.
Birds love a deep clean!
Everyone has a reason here why this isn't necessary, but frankly it's just not a dumb idea and especially relevant for shared workplace workstations. I'd rather have a disable for cleaning button than a windows button.
I don't mind the windows button. It's effectively a quick way to a run command.
Draw an S on there and bam! you have a Super button.
What’s a Super button you ask? It’s the S in S-M-butterfly. Or in other words: it’s an extra modifier key.
I think KDE plasma calls it the meta button. Now that's ruined too!
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