Eben King wrote:
>On Sun, 25 Dec 2005, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
>
>
>>michael hast wrote:
>>
>>
>>>And in the same vein, how difficult would it be to hard-wire a keyboard
>>>to the Dvorak layout? I'm just not convinced enough to plunk the cash
>>>on a pre-hardwired keyboard, and I'm not sure it would be any less
>>>difficult to configure it on the software side. Any of you guys using
>>>Dvorak?
>>>
>>>
>>All you need to do is replace your current keymap. Distributions do this
>>different ways, but somewhere in the files in your /etc hierarchy is a
>>pointer to which keymap to use. On Debian:
>>
>>/etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz
>>
>>is the keymap used from boot forward. I always swap Ctrl and Caps Lock
>>keys on my keyboards (drives my wife crazy). The keymaps to choose from
>>are at:
>>
>>/usr/share/keymaps
>>
>>Assuming you're running an Intel chip, your Dvorak layout would be in the
>>
>>/usr/share/keymaps/i386/dvorak
>>
>>subdirectory. You simply copy one of those to the aforementioned /etc
>>location and reboot. (Actually, you can remap on the fly, but I'm not
>>familiar with the procedure enough to describe it.)
>>
>>
>
>Going one way:
>
>if [[ -z $DISPLAY ]] ; then # not in X
>grep -v '^#' << EOF | loadkeys -
>keymaps 0-2,4-6,8-9,12
>keycode 2 = equal plus
> alt keycode 2 = Meta_equal
> shift alt keycode 2 = Meta_plus
>keycode 3 = one exclam
> alt keycode 3 = Meta_one
> shift alt keycode 3 = Meta_exclam
>...
>EOF
>else # in X
>grep -v '^#' << EOF | sed 's/^\(.*\)$/keycode \1/' | xmodmap -
>10 = equal plus
>11 = 1 exclam
>...
>EOF
>fi
>
>Going back:
>if [[ -z $DISPLAY ]] ; then # not in X
> loadkeys us.map
>else # in X
> xmodmap /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc/xmodmap.std
>fi
>
>Going back's much easier. Course, there's probably an easier way if your
>keymap exists.
>
>
>
good grief, you guys are smart! I'm not trying to kiss butt here, you
guys are sharp! now I've got somethig else to play with. I suppose I
should recap an extra keyboard and get it ready for the experiment, huh?
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