How can that be possible? Does this mean that the home row letters/symbols swap positions with the modifier keys? Most certainly not! You see, one of the untapped potential of modifiers that are active as long as you hold them is that they don’t do anything useful when they’re tapped (i.e. So this means that “home row mods” are about placing modifiers on the home row.
Do not confuse the term with actual graphical user interfaces. The last modifier in the list is also known as WinKey on Windows, Command on MacOS or Super/Meta 1 on Linux and BSD. What is meant by “mods”? In this case, “mods” refer to modifiers, that is to say ⇧ Shift, ⎈ Control, ⎇ Alt, and ◆ GUI. The bars or the dish found on F and J help to find back the home position without looking at the keyboard - this is especially important for relatively big keyboards which require you to move your hands to hit some of the keys like for example Backspace or the arrow keys on a classic TKL and thus throw you off home position. This row is called the “ home row” because if one were to follow touch typing technique, this is the row of keys on which your fingers are supposed to rest on. On an English QWERTY keyboard this would be
The “home row” refers to the middle row of alpha keys.
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