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nspeirs1

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Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 7

dvorak keyboard international layout

Hello everyone,

I am taking a Spanish class, and I wanted to be able to type the accent marks.  I also use the dvorak keyboard.  I was trying to get the Dvorak keyboard international layout to load and I had some trouble.  When I did the command "setxkbmap dvorak" it loads the dvorak keyboard no problems.  However, when I did the command "setxkbmap dvorak-intl" I got an error: "Error loading new keyboard description"

Fortunately, I read somewhere that there were two dvorak keyboards in Xorg; a dvorak layout, and a dvorak variant of the US layout.  By first switching to the US keyboard "setxkbmap us" and then switching to the dvorak-intl variant "setxkbmap -variant dvorak-intl", I was able to successfully load the dvorak international keyboard.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: dvorak keyboard international layout

Welcome to the forums :-)
Can you please add this info to the wiki?