Setting up or trying out Dvorak
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This is a quick blurb for setting or converting your keymaps to dvorak instead of that horrid qwerty.
To convert to dvorak on the console, type
loadkeys dvorak/dvorak
To make this change permanent, set
KEYMAP=dvorak/dvorak
in /etc/rc.conf.
To convert to dvorak in X, type
setxkbmap dvorak
To make this change permanent, set
Option "XkbLayout" "dvorak"
in the keyboard "InputDevice" section of /etc/X11/XF86Config or /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
If you are using the input hotplugging (evdev) you'll need to make the following changes:
cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi /etc/hal/fdi/policy/
Edit the resulting file and update the input.xkb.variant entry to look like:
<merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string">dvorak</merge>
Lastly you'll need to set the keyboard model to evdev
setxkbmap -model evdev
Swedish people interested in trying dvorak can find the swedish "version", called svorak, at www.aoeu.info!
To convert to svorak in X permanently, set
<merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">se</merge> <merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string">dvorak</merge>
in the keyboard "InputDevice" section of /etc/X11/XF86Config or /etc/X11/xorg.conf. To convert to svorak in X you do not need to download any additional files from www.aoeu.info.
Typing tutor: DvorakNG