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fait

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Registered: 2012-02-17

Posts: 15

[SOLVED] Changing Keyboard layout to Colemak

I consulted the wiki here

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ke … on_in_Xorg

and attempted to change my english keyboard layout to colemak

To change just the layout (-layout is the default flag):

$ setxkbmap colemak

I then get

Error loading new keyboard description

I have tried

setxkbmap dvorak

and that works fine. I have also tried

localectl --no-convert colemak

and checked my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf to find

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "system-keyboard"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        Option "XkbLayout" "colemak"
EndSection

Can anyone point me in the right direction? I have recently put alot of effort into typing and would very much like to try this layout.

Thank you for your time.

Last edited by fait (2015-07-31 03:54:11)

bsdson.tw

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From: Taiwan

Registered: 2005-05-06

Posts: 161

Re: [SOLVED] Changing Keyboard layout to Colemak

If you work mostly in xwin environment,
I'd suggest to change the layout via your Desktop Environment.

fait

Member

Registered: 2012-02-17

Posts: 15

Re: [SOLVED] Changing Keyboard layout to Colemak

Thank You, I figured it out in gnome

Last edited by fait (2015-07-31 03:53:46)

terminalgremlin

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Registered: 2021-02-18

Posts: 1

Re: [SOLVED] Changing Keyboard layout to Colemak

Hey if anyone is wondering how to do it through the terminal it should be this command:

$ setxkbmap us -variant colemak

At least on my system, hope that helps