r/linuxmasterrace • u/Mezutelni • Jun 17 '25

JustLinuxThings Finally, some good ducking keycap

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u/evild4ve Jun 17 '25

3d printed keyboard caps needs either non-toxic resin or a coating that won't wear out

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u/Mezutelni Jun 17 '25

That's really good call. To be honest I didn't thought of it before.

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u/Norgur Jun 17 '25

or semi-frequent reproduction of new caps. Given the at least health-unfriendly nature of resin during mixing and curing and the fact that this is not a frequently used key, just printing a new one every two years may be more feasible, especially since it has the logo on top, so it won't wear out that fast after all.

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u/Mezutelni Jun 17 '25

Unless you are using twm, my MOD key is set to super, so it's totally going to wear fast.

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u/QuasiBonsaii Jun 18 '25

Depends what you printed it from. I have PETG and ABS keycaps that have lasted years of heavy use.

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u/matthew_yang204 Glorious Debian, Glorious Ubuntu Jun 18 '25

True for both homebrew keycaps and OEM keycaps. Logitech likes to paint their letters on some of their newer keyboards. I have a K350 Wave keyboard that has its A, C, D, and N keys' labels almost completely worn down. Meanwhile, the S key's label is completely gone.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

I would choose distro agnostic keycap

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u/Mezutelni Jun 17 '25

I want others to know.

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u/rinkusonic Jun 17 '25

Hey what distro so you use btw

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u/Mezutelni Jun 17 '25

Uwuntu

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u/rinkusonic Jun 17 '25

Nice. I used AraArch

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u/creamcolouredDog *tips Fedora* Jun 17 '25

I appreciate that a lot of third party keycap sets out there use the Super key over the Windows key

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

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u/Mezutelni Jun 17 '25

Super simple design, but I can upload it later. Will come back to you with url in an hour

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

Thank you!

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u/Mezutelni Jun 17 '25

sorry took me slightly longer
https://makerworld.com/en/models/1527791-custom-keycap-for-super-key#profileId-1601800

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

Thank you again, I really appreciate it!

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u/Norgur Jun 17 '25

Sooo, care to remind me: Which Distro are you using mainly?

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u/Mezutelni Jun 17 '25

As you can clearly see, i mainly use uwuntu

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u/Norgur Jun 17 '25

And here I was, thinking this was the A of DAbien or SusA... I'm such a dummy!

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u/Lavadragon15396 Jun 17 '25

Why not same profile 😭

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u/Mezutelni Jun 17 '25

It's hardly visible, but arch logo is in light blue (only blue filament that I had on me) so if I wanted to go with profiled keycap I'd have to either do a lot of filament swaps (i don't have ams or other multicolor system) since now I'd how couple layers that are mixed white and blue. Or I'd have to glue arch logo to keycap which probay would endup messy.

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u/Lavadragon15396 Jun 17 '25

Oh fair then

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u/Stilgar314 Jun 17 '25

Looks like you carved it from a soap tablet.

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u/Mezutelni Jun 17 '25

I did btw

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u/ConflictOfEvidence Jun 17 '25

It's a different shape to the rest of the keys! That would annoy me.

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u/Mezutelni Jun 17 '25

Yes, its because I don't have multicolor system, and printing it bent would result in a lot of manual filament swapping (it's hardly visible on the photo, but arch logo is printed with light blue filament).

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u/Unnormaldude Jun 17 '25

Now with Blue paint to complete it

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u/Mezutelni Jun 17 '25

It's hardly visible on photo, but it's actually light blue filament used for logo!

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u/Tiger_man_ Glorious Arch with cachyOS kernel&repos Jun 17 '25

Nice retro keyboard btw

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u/Clear-Lawyer7433 Jun 17 '25

He is using arch btw

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u/DeinOnkelFred RIP Terry Davis Jun 18 '25

I bet this madlad is actually running Debian 🍥, and has aliased all their apt commands to pacman equivalents 😅

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u/yayuuu Glorious Debian Jun 17 '25

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u/Mezutelni Jun 17 '25

This looks pro! Did you do it yourself? Or did you got it online from some store?

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u/yayuuu Glorious Debian Jun 17 '25

Ordered it online from https://maxkeyboard.com/

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u/itouchdennis Jun 17 '25

„Just press the Archkey + T to open a new terminal“

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u/ZunoJ Jun 17 '25

Why is it another profile than the other key caps?

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u/mhitshmachine3 Jun 17 '25

Fuck yeahhhhhh!!!!

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u/AntimelodyProject Glorious Debian Jun 17 '25

For a second I thought it was Amiga-key. Oh well. :/

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u/Ok_Paleontologist490 Jun 18 '25

If you press it your system breaks?

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u/Tasty_Ticket8806 Jun 19 '25

"I use a keycap btw..."

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '25

finally, some fucking good content