Which keys are absolutely essential to a keyboard? Many will tell you the entire numpad is, while others demand macro keys. I personally insist on a volume knob for my home office setup. And as ...

After giving it some thought, I decided to ditch my number pad computer keyboard for good (and I don't regret my decision in ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The AM Compact Touch is a weird half measure between a 65 percent layout and a HHKB. It’s a joy to use when I don ...

Keyboards. There’s a size for everyone from full-sized to tenkeyless to 60% and even 65%. The smaller 60% keyboards are designed for compact desk spaces and gamers, but they aren’t without their flaws ...

There’s nothing more cursed for a PC gamer than having your WASD keyboard layout swapped with the arrow keys, or vice versa. Well, there are more cursed things, but this one is definitely frustrating.

I am writing a simple text editor in C and ncurses, mostly to learn the language. I can detect normal key presses, but not arrow keys. The function I would normally use is getch(). But when I run my ...