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Adding to the comments about VIA and QMK, you can also use something on the computer itself to do ergonomics tricks and making F7 usable again.
I'm in particular using
kanata, which then works on everything from notebook keyboards to custom ones. I'm not 100% happy with it and in fact considering to write my own software for this, but it's good-enough for basic usage. It might be good-enough for you.kmonadis less buggy but has fewer features (definitely enough for F7 though).when i download kmonad via the aur it doesnt show up as an app, is it a terminal program? if so, how do i use it?