dvorak layout

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Mon Oct 16 22:12:19 UTC 2006


On 16/10/06, Mike Wright <xktnniuymlla at mailinator.com> wrote:
> I have these on my system.  Are any of these useful to you?  If so, just
> say which ones and I'll zip and send them to you.
>
> $ slocate /dvorak
> /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/dvorak
> /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/dvorak/ANSI-dvorak.map.gz
> /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/dvorak/dvorak-r.map.gz
> /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/dvorak/dvorak.map.gz
> /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/dvorak/dvorak-l.map.gz
> /usr/share/aspell/dvorak.kbd
> /usr/share/vim/vim63/macros/dvorak
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/sgi/dvorak
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/dvorak
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/dvorak

Thank, Mike. I should note that I'm not home (so I can't get to my FC5
box), and this is a Debian machine (Ubuntu). So it turns out that it
_does_ have these files:

sullivan at ubuntu:~$ locate dvorak
/etc/X11/xkb/keymap/sgi_vndr/dvorak
/usr/share/vim/vim64/macros/dvorak
/usr/share/keymaps/i386/dvorak
/usr/share/keymaps/i386/dvorak/dvorak-classic.kmap.gz
/usr/share/keymaps/i386/dvorak/ANSI-dvorak.kmap.gz
/usr/share/keymaps/i386/dvorak/mac-usb-dvorak.kmap.gz
/usr/share/keymaps/i386/dvorak/dvorak-fr.kmap.gz
/usr/share/keymaps/i386/dvorak/dvorak-l.kmap.gz
/usr/share/keymaps/i386/dvorak/dvorak-r.kmap.gz
/usr/share/keymaps/i386/dvorak/dvorak.kmap.gz
/usr/share/keymaps/i386/dvorak/pc-dvorak-latin1.kmap.gz
/usr/share/keymaps/sun/sundvorak.kmap.gz
/usr/share/keymaps/mac/mac-dvorak.kmap.gz
/usr/share/keymaps/mac/mac-us-dvorak.kmap.gz
/usr/share/xmodmap/xmodmap.dvorak
/usr/lib/aspell/dvorak.kbd
/usr/lib/dosemu/keymap/dvorak

And I can "loadkeys /usr/lib/kbd/keytables/dvorak.map" to get dvorak
on the command line. But it's missing from KDE Kcontrol. I don't see
anything KDE-looking in the files listed in Mike's post. I personally
don't use dvorak (but now that I've seen it, I just might), so I don't
even know if FC[4||5] has in in KDE. Could somebody confirm that it
does/doesn't?

And no amount of googling is helping, either. There's a bug filed for
Ubunutu, but no solution. No help on their mailing list, either.

Maybe I'll test out the network-install of FC on this box. I won't -
it's not mine - but I'm tempted!

Dotan Cohen

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