Dvorak
This is a quick blurb for setting or converting your keymaps to dvorak instead of qwerty.
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Setting Dvorak Layout
See Keyboard configuration in console or Keyboard configuration in Xorg for configuration details.
For the virtual terminal, dvorak and the regional keyboard are combined into one keymap. But Xorg lists dvorak as varian of your regional keymap.
The us Dvorak keymaps for the virtual terminal are:
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dvorak, Standard -
dvorak-l, Left handed Dvorak -
dvorak-r, Right handed Dvorak -
dvorak-programmer, Programmer Dvorak
The us Dvorak keymaps for Xorg are:
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dvorak, Standard -
dvorak-l, Left Handed Dvorak -
dvorak-r, Right Handed Dvorak -
dvp, Programmer Dvorak -
dvorak-intl, International Dvorak dvorak-classicdvorak-alt-intl
us layout, you need to pass them to XkbVariant variable. See Keyboard configuration in Xorg#Setting keyboard layout for an explanation.For international users
Swedish
Swedish people interested in trying dvorak can find the swedish "version", called svorak, at aoeu.info! To convert to svorak in X you do not need to download any additional files from www.aoeu.info.
Spanish
In console, specify dvorak-es instead of dvorak to use the Spanish dvorak variant.
In Xorg, specify es as XkbLayout and dvorak as XkbVariant.
United Kingdom
In console, specify dvorak-ukp (available from dvorak-ukpAUR) instead of dvorak to use the United Kingdom dvorak variant with ISO/IEC 9995-1 punctuation.
In Xorg, specify gb as XkbLayout and dvorakukp as XkbVariant.
Typing tutors
- Console
- dvorakngAUR
- GUI