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Re: add a layout to keyboardsetup
Posted: 16. Aug 2022, 18:40
by mimosa
Only for Salix 16.0 I presume!
Seriously though, qwerty is the Windows of keyboard layouts.
Re: add a layout to keyboardsetup
Posted: 17. Aug 2022, 16:08
by hugok
Re: add a layout to keyboardsetup
Posted: 17. Aug 2022, 19:02
by mimosa
Thank you very much, that looks like a promising line of enquiry!
Re: add a layout to keyboardsetup
Posted: 17. Aug 2022, 21:05
by gapan
Oh that looks quite straight-forward!
mimosa, can you try this package?
https://people.salixos.org/gapan/kbd-extra/
Install it and also add a line like this in your keymaps file:
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dvp|us|dvp|compose:102,numpad:shift3,kpdl:semi,keypad:atm,caps:shift
Re: add a layout to keyboardsetup
Posted: 18. Aug 2022, 08:44
by mimosa
Thanks gapan, that worked like a charm!
I have actually got better at qwerty after a certain amount of faffing about lately. But I can't remember where any of the symbols are. I really ought to learn it properly, I don't think it would "interfere" with Dvorak muscle memory.
Here is a plug for Dvorak, from the same place:
https://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/
Dvorak keyboards are mostly known for their ability to speed up typing. Along with this comes the usual crowd of naysayers that state that it hasn't been proved that Dvorak actually is faster that Qwerty. However, no-one has ever produced evidence that it is slower either. And they're really missing the point, too. It isn't about being faster, it is about being easier. Dvorak keyboards are easier because they have been designed so that the most common phrases are located nearer the base position of your fingers.
An ANSI Dvorak layout already exists, and your operating system probably comes with this installed. However, this layout has some serious problems when writing source code. The characters are in traditional Dvorak layout all right, but the symbols are put in the same hopeless locations as in the Qwerty layout!
Programmer Dvorak is a "sub"-layout which makes it easier to write source code in C, C#, Java, Pascal, Lisp, CSS, XML and alikes. It was generated through reflection of the most common constructs in these languages and the rules set forward by the August Dvorak in his research, then verified by scanning through thousands of source code lines ensuring that a good fit was found.
Re: add a layout to keyboardsetup
Posted: 18. Aug 2022, 10:51
by gapan
mimosa, what about these options?
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compose:102,numpad:shift3,kpdl:semi,keypad:atm,caps:shift
I guess they probably shouldn't be used by default, right?
Re: add a layout to keyboardsetup
Posted: 18. Aug 2022, 13:31
by mimosa
I'm not quite certain what those all do, but since they are as documented on the website, perhaps it would be ok to keep them? They are unlikely to perturb anyone who doesn't read that far down the page. And they do look useful, for typing accents and such. Now I know they are there, I will probably start using them.
Re: add a layout to keyboardsetup
Posted: 18. Aug 2022, 14:59
by gapan
OK, I'll keep them then. Here's a complete list of options:
Re: add a layout to keyboardsetup
Posted: 18. Aug 2022, 16:34
by mimosa
Thanks very much for this. It's a real treat for me to have this "exactly right".
I have been meaning, for years, to get to grips with keyboard layouts. Maybe now I finally will. I do now and again write emails in languages such as Portuguese, and I'm afraid now I'm not in Brazil, I generally just miss off the diacritics. The effect to anyone who knows the language is barbaric.
Re: add a layout to keyboardsetup
Posted: 19. Aug 2022, 10:53
by gapan
mimosa, I found this one, which looks much cleaner than the auto-generated one I made:
https://github.com/jiangmiao/dvp
Can you tell me if it works equally well? gzip the dvp.map file and replace the /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/dvorak/dvp.map.gz file with it.
