creating a one-handed keyboard with X.org

Jim Higson jh at 333.org
Tue Jun 14 09:39:02 UTC 2005


On Tuesday 14 Jun 2005 03:20, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, chuck clark wrote:
> > On 6/13/05, Jim Higson <jh at 333.org> wrote:
> >> Broke two bones in my left arm... looking at options to keep hacking :)
>
> Investigate left or right handed dvorak keyboard layout... They map to a
> regular keyboard and were desgined 60 years ago specifically for your
> situation.
>
> http://www.pcguide.com/ref/kb/layout/alphaSingle-c.html

The problem is I quite often do pair-programming, so I need something normal 
qwerty users can just sit down and use, and that doesn't stop me from being 
trained in using everyone else's boards.

> >> half-qwerty looks good, see
> >> http://www.adapt-it.org.uk/products/halfqwertykeyboard.asp
> >>
> >> but the price is much more than I can afford. is a similar thing
> >> possible in software, probably on the X11 level, but anywhere else is
> >> also fine.
> >
> > this one is a bit cheaper
> > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8204555/

-- 
Jim




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