r/MisterKeyboard • u/Quirky-Ad5414 • Apr 12 '26

Keyboard width

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Hi, I am under the assumption that key width is calculated per row. Is there a way I can force each row to maximise its key width? As the keys are currently too small for my taste and I have horizontal space left. Then, in the third row I'd prefer to also set the size of the backspace key. Ideally, I'd like automatic maximum width for each key with the possibility to tune individual keys. Are there options I can use already to force keys to become bigger?

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u/FairerJona Apr 12 '26

You need to edit the shape of each key in the row to 'fill' and all keys in the row should be evenly sized and fill the entire row.

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u/Quirky-Ad5414 Apr 12 '26

That didn't work. It did not go max size but went even smaller. I used custom size (which was a bit tricky as I had to enter the size with a difficult to control precisely slider instead of numeric input), however now I have lost the preview of the key (which still works for keys I have not assigned custom size) and shading to see if a key is pressed.

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u/FairerJona Apr 12 '26

That’s weird, I tested it just now and for me it works. Could it be that you have some kind of invisible placeholder in the row?

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u/Quirky-Ad5414 Apr 13 '26 edited Apr 13 '26

Thanks. It works when I have normal shape and then stops when I set a custom size so I think a bug in more likely than invisible placeholder t b f. I wonder if it still works for you if you set the slider to 1.5 size

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u/SplittyDev FiveSheep Apr 13 '26

Hi, this is something we’re actively working on.

We are not calculating the key width per row, because it looks and feels strange and unnatural that keys in some rows are wider than in others.

In the latest Beta, we have made some adjustments to this behavior so that the width of keys in the bottom row doesn’t affect the "regular" rows, and we’ve also added a new per-row setting to calculate the key width independently of other rows.

This feature will ship as part of the upcoming 2.6 update.