linmak

My bilingual (German/English) layout for the MoErgo Glove80, as a ZMK config. The keymap lives in config/glove80.keymap, with a matching config/glove80.json that can be imported back into the MoErgo Layout Editor.

Inspiration & base

• Alphas: almost 1:1 Aptmak Blue, the mirrored variant of aptmak: E on the left thumb, a o i n on the left home row, k h t s r on the right. The bilingual idea comes from My Bilingual Layout.
• Technical base: TailorKey v5.2 Bilateral by @moosy, inspired by Sunaku's Glorious Engrammer. Taken from it:
  • home row mods (GACS) with bilateral combinations enforcement
  • the Typing layer
  • the Cursor, Symbol, Mouse, Magic and Gaming layers
  • the combos
• My own changes:
  • ü ö ä on the inner index finger column, ß top left (all via EurKEY / RA())
  • y on the outer right of the home row, ; on the outer left
  • ` and ' bottom left, z and v moved to the bottom right
  • / - = and [ ] in the bottom row
  • Cursor layer on its own left thumb key, so E is a plain key
  • an Aerospace layer (hold Esc), a numpad layer with regular digits (hold Tab) and a Meh combo
  • Autoshift layer and the left-thumb combos removed

Notes

• Umlauts and ß require the EurKEY OS layout. Without it, those keys only send AltGr+letter.
• Ctrl shortcuts in the Cursor and Mouse layers (Ctl+C/V/X/Z …) are intentional, so the keyboard works on Windows and Linux without any changes. On macOS, the modifier keys are remapped in System Settings.

Setup

Tools are managed with mise (see mise.toml):

mise install

Drawing the keymap

mise run draw

This uses keymap-drawer to render keymap-drawer/glove80.svg from the keymap. Colors, labels and the selected layers are configured in keymap-drawer/config.yaml. The SVG follows light/dark mode automatically. On GitHub, the draw.yml workflow re-renders and commits the SVG whenever the keymap changes.

Layout Editor round trip

config/glove80.json is the same layout in Layout Editor format (import requires Local Backup and Restore in the editor settings). Every change goes into both files, and mise run check verifies they match (CI runs it too).

To edit in the editor instead: import the JSON, make changes, export both JSON and .keymap, and replace the two files in config/.

Building the firmware

Locally (needs Docker, e.g. via colima start):

mise run build              # builds against moergo-sc/zmk@main
mise run build v26.09       # or against a specific tag/branch

The Docker image is built straight from the MoErgo template repo, so no build files live here. The result is glove80.uf2 in the repo root (ignored by git).

GitHub Actions: the build.yml workflow builds on every push and uploads glove80.uf2 as an artifact.

Flashing

Both halves are flashed one after the other with the same glove80.uf2:

1. Enter the bootloader: hold Magic and press Boot on the same half (see the Magic layer above).
2. The half shows up as a USB drive, GLV80LHBOOT or GLV80RHBOOT.
3. Copy glove80.uf2 onto the drive. The half restarts automatically.

See the Glove80 User Guide for details.

Structure

Path	Contents
config/glove80.keymap	keymap (ZMK devicetree)
config/glove80.json	same layout for the Layout Editor
config/glove80.conf	Kconfig, e.g. CONFIG_ZMK_POINTING=y for mouse emulation
config/default.nix	Nix build used by CI and Docker (from the MoErgo template)
keymap-drawer/	visualization: config and SVG
mise.toml	tools and tasks (draw, build, check)
scripts/check-sync.py	checks keymap and JSON are in sync
.github/workflows/	build.yml (firmware), draw.yml (SVG)

Based on the moergo-sc/glove80-zmk-config template (MIT).