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   8                 <p>Since about 2011 I've started using dvorak as my main keyboard layout and like the efficiency compared to QWERTY.</p>
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  10                 <h2>Dvorak update update (2015-10-30)</h2>
  11                 <p>Note to self: x-keyboard-config on arch linux overwrites the
  12                 file where the dvorak russian keymap is stored and by that the
  13                 xserver fails to set the keymap, returning to default qwerty.
  14                 This can be solved by loading the keymap from a custom
  15                 location? Or maybe to pin the file so that the package manager
  16                 doesn't overwrite it?</p>
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  18                 <h2>Dvorak russian update (2015-04-16)</h2>
  19                 <p>Since having to setup the keyboard after login can be useful if you
  20                 don't have the rights to edit system configuration files on your system(eg.
  21                 work) but it's not a durable solution for your own system. If you want to
  22                 make these things semipermanent you can use the handy program called
  23                 <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/localectl.html">
  24                         localectl
  25                 </a> which writes an xorg.conf.d/ file. In my specific case these are the
  26                 commands to set the keymap for the console and for within X. For the
  27                 console I only use normal dvorak whereas in X I want to be able to
  28                 switch(with menu key) and use the right alt as compose key.
  29                 <pre>
  30 # localectl set-x11-keymap --no-convert dvorak,ru pc104 ,phonetic_dvorak compose:ralt,grp:menu_toggle
  31 # localectl set-keymap --no-convert dvorak
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  35                 <h2>Dvorak russian (2014-10-07)</h2>
  36                 <p>When learning russian I had to type some stuff in russian, as I found
  37                 out that there was a phonetic keyboard I was excited but it didn't work on
  38                 dvorak layout. So some guy named Oleg made a phonetic russian keyboard
  39                 layout in dvorak and you can download it
  40                 <a href="files/phonetic_dvorak.gz">here</a>. When you want to use it you
  41                 have to append the information from the file to
  42                         <pre>/usr/share/X11//xkb/symbols/ru</pre>
  43                 When you want to load it you can
  44                 type
  45                         <pre>setxkbmap -layout ru -variant phonetic_dvorak</pre>
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  48                 <h2>Dvorak in dos</h2>
  49                 <p>To use dvorak in dos download this <a href="files/dvorak_dos.tar">file</a> containing dvorak.com<br />
  50                 Transfer it to your C:\DOS folder for example and add this to your AUTOEXEC.bat:
  51                 <pre>C:\DOS\DVORAK.COM</pre>
  52                 When your computer boots the program will say DVORAK is loaded and you're good to go</p>
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  54                 <h2>Dvorak in dosbox</h2>
  55                 <p>Dvorak is also usable in dosbox via a custom mapper file that your can find <a href="files/dvorak-0.74.map">here</a><br />
  56                 You can enable the layout by saving this in your settings directory and <pre>mapperfile=dvorak-0.74.map</pre> to your sdl section of your dosbox config.</p>
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