Dvorak
This is a quick blurb for setting or converting your keymaps to dvorak instead of qwerty.
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Setting Dvorak Layout
See Keyboard configuration in console or Keyboard configuration in Xorg for configuration details.
For the virtual terminal, dvorak and the regional keyboard are combined into one keymap. But Xorg lists dvorak as variant of your regional keymap.
The us
Dvorak keymaps for the virtual terminal are:
-
dvorak
, Standard -
dvorak-l
, Left handed Dvorak -
dvorak-r
, Right handed Dvorak -
dvorak-programmer
, Programmer Dvorak
The us
Dvorak keymaps for Xorg are:
-
dvorak
, Standard -
dvorak-l
, Left Handed Dvorak -
dvorak-r
, Right Handed Dvorak -
dvp
, Programmer Dvorak -
dvorak-intl
, International Dvorak dvorak-classic
dvorak-alt-intl
us
layout, you need to pass them to XkbVariant
variable. See Keyboard configuration in Xorg#Setting keyboard layout for an explanation.For international users
Swedish
Swedish people interested in trying dvorak can find the swedish "version", called svorak, at aoeu.info! To convert to svorak in X you do not need to download any additional files from www.aoeu.info.
Spanish
In console, specify dvorak-es
instead of dvorak
to use the Spanish dvorak variant.
In Xorg, specify es
as XkbLayout
and dvorak
as XkbVariant
.
United Kingdom
In console, specify dvorak-ukp
(available from dvorak-ukpAUR) instead of dvorak
to use the United Kingdom dvorak variant with ISO/IEC 9995-1 punctuation.
In Xorg, specify gb
as XkbLayout
and dvorakukp
as XkbVariant
.
Typing tutors
- Console
- dvorakngAUR[broken link: package not found]
- GUI