Re: [SLUG] multiple keyboards?

From: michael hast (evylrobot19@cox.net)
Date: Tue Nov 21 2006 - 14:56:56 EST


Eben King wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Max F Lang wrote:
>
>> On Monday 20 November 2006 11:52 am, michael hast wrote:
>>> I've got an interesting one for you. For quite some time now, I
>>> have been thinking of trying out Dvorak. I have an old keyboard that I
>>
>> I've long had these two functions in my ~/.bashrc file:
>>
>> asdf() { setxkbmap dvorak; }
>> aoeu() { setxkbmap en_US; }
>>
>> I hit "asdf" at a command prompt and I'm using a two-handed Dvorak. I
>> hit
>> "aoeu" (same key strokes) and I'm back using the standard keyboard.
>
> That's much simpler than the X branch of my scripts, but I don't know
> if there's a map for Left Hand Dvorak. How do I find out what valid
> options to setxkbmap are? I mean there's the man page, and it gives
> hints about /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb but I can only find one thing there
> called *dvorak* (keymap/sgi_vndr/dvorak) and I doubt that's what
> you're invoking. On purpose, anyway.
>
Not to mention simpler than having two keyboards on the machine!
Honestly, I know where the keys are under qwerty. I don't really need
them mapped out for me there. I should do something like this instead.
Maybe I should be looking at left-hand Dvorak instead anyway. Eben,
have you used both? If so, can you tell that using only one hand
reduces your speed to an appreciable degree? And regardless of that,
how would you rate your speed between standard two-hand and left-hand
Dvorak? Thanks again!

--Michael
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