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jellywerker

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From: Sunny Seattle

Registered: 2005-04-04

Posts: 286

dvorak keyboard setup

I saw in the wiki about changing your keymap to dvorak, which I am thinking of trying, for several reasons including I have never learned to type correctly with qwerty, and it seesm you can attain good speeds with one hand (a boon to me). But I was wondering, how do you set up the left and right hand keymaps instead of the double handed one?

mezoko

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Registered: 2005-03-26

Posts: 310

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Re: dvorak keyboard setup

I'd also like to know I have a spare keyboard sitting around....

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codemac

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From: Cliche Tech Place

Registered: 2005-05-13

Posts: 794

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Re: dvorak keyboard setup

/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/dvorak/dvorak-l.map.gz
/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/dvorak/dvorak-r.map.gz
/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/dvorak/dvorak.map.gz

so instead of dvorak/dvorak, use dvorak/dvorak-l and dvorak/dvorak-r.

Happy dvorak-ing.  ( haven't gone back since I've learned )

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jellywerker

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From: Sunny Seattle

Registered: 2005-04-04

Posts: 286

Re: dvorak keyboard setup

Sorry for the late reply, but thank you.