On February 2, 2007, Tim wrote:
Take a typing class, you'll learn it much quicker than that. ;-)
You
can get alphabetically arranged keyboards, but you'd probably have to
put up with one decorated in children's colours.
I could handle that! But I'd have to make a character map from scratch, I
think, mapping the keysyms to the codes generated by the keypress, or
something. I did one way back in redhat 5 days, for my laptop, which I bought
in north america, so that I could write in european languages without
headaches. It was a lot of work and I am not sure exactly how i did it
anymore. I think the system has changed a bit since then, anyway.
I manage, not too badly, alternating from mouse to keyboard. The
keys
additional to a typewriter throw me, though. The F keys are too far
away for touch typing, the insert, delete, home, end, page up/down keys
are in different spots on different keyboards (I keep hitting print
screen on some of them).
That used to get me, too. You better watch it, that you don't hit that sysrq
key by mistake ;-) or your system will power down in an instant.
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