Dvorak keyboard layout on Trisquel GNU/Linux
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There are currently five English Dvorak layout variants
1. The ANSI Dvorak layout commonly known as "dvorak" on your Trisquel OS. 2. The original layout by Dr. August Dvorak "dvorak-classic". 3. Programmer's Dvorak "dvp" 4. The right/left-handed layout "dvorak-r" or "dvorak-l"
If your default keyboard is qwerty then you could try dvorak layout by the following methods: Trisquel-Menu -> system settings -> keyboard layout -> layout(tab) click on the + button and search your desired layout;
Or if you prefer gnome-terminal or xterm try these $ setxkbmap us -variant dvorak $ setxkbmap us -variant dvorak-classic $ setxkbmap us -variant dvp $ setxkbmap us -variant dvorak-r $ setxkbmap us -variant dvorak-l optional layouts $ setxkbmap us -variant dvorak-intl $ setxkbmap us -variant dvorak-alt-intl
The variants can be found in the following file /usr/share/X11/xkb/us
For tty terminals "setxkbmap" command cannot be used. The "loadkeys" command can only use the ANSI Dvorak layout. $ loadkeys dvorak
For permanantly using dvorak layout on your Trisquel OS edit the following file /etc/default/keyboard replace the text in the file with
- The following variables describe your keyboard and can have the same
- values as the XkbModel, XkbLayout, XkbVariant and XkbOptions options
- in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
XKBMODEL="pc105" XKBLAYOUT="us" XKBVARIANT="dvorak-classic" # your prefered variant XKBOPTIONS=""
- If you don't want to use the XKB layout on the console, you can
- specify an alternative keymap. Make sure it will be accessible
- before /usr is mounted.
- KMAP=/etc/console-setup/defkeymap.kmap.gz
