dvorak.html

   1 <!DOCTYPE html>
   2 <html lang="en">
   3         <head>
   4                 <title>Dvorak resources</title>
   5                 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
   6                 <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
   7         </head>
   8         <body>
   9                 <header>
  10                         <h1>Dvorak resources</h1>
  11                         <p>Since about 2011 I've started using dvorak as my main keyboard layout and like the efficiency compared to QWERTY.</p>
  12
  13                         <nav>
  14                                 <p><a href="index.html">Home</a> &gt; Dvorak resources</p>
  15                                 <h2>Table of contents</h2>
  16                                 <ul>
  17                                         <li><a href="#notes">Notes</a>
  18                                                 <ul>
  19                                                         <li><a href="#xkeyb">Note to self (2015-10-30)</a></li>
  20                                                 </ul>
  21                                         </li>
  22                                         <li><a href="#dosbox">Dosbox</a>
  23                                                 <ul>
  24                                                         <li><a href="#dosboxupdate">Update (2020-06-11)</a></li>
  25                                                 </ul>
  26                                         </li>
  27                                         <li><a href="#dos">Dos</a></li>
  28                                         <li><a href="#russian">Russian (2014-10-07)</a>
  29                                                 <ul>
  30                                                         <li><a href="#russianupdate">Update (2015-04-16)</a></li>
  31                                                 </ul>
  32                                         </li>
  33                                         <li><a href="#dosbox">Dvorak dosbox</a></li>
  34                                 </ul>
  35                         </nav>
  36                 </header>
  37                 <h2 id="notes">Notes</h2>
  38                 <h3 id="xkeyb">Note to self (2015-10-30)</h3>
  39                 <p>Note to self: x-keyboard-config on arch linux overwrites the
  40                 file where the dvorak russian keymap is stored and by that the
  41                 xserver fails to set the keymap, returning to default qwerty.
  42                 This can be solved by loading the keymap from a custom
  43                 location? Or maybe to pin the file so that the package manager
  44                 doesn't overwrite it?</p>
  45
  46                 <h2 id="dosbox">Dosbox</h2>
  47                 <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 />
  48                 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>
  49
  50                 <h3 id="dosboxupdate">Update (2020-06-11)</h3>
  51                 <p>Dvorak is now built in as a keymap in dosbox.
  52                 You can enable the layout by running <pre>KEYB dv103</pre> in a dosbox
  53                 prompt or setting the following in your dosbox config file.
  54                 </p>
  55                 <pre>
  56 [dos]
  57 keyboardlayout=dv103
  58                 </pre>
  59
  60                 <h2 id="dos">Dvorak in dos</h2>
  61                 <p>To use dvorak in dos download this <a href="files/dvorak_dos.tar">file</a> containing dvorak.com<br />
  62                 Transfer it to your C:\DOS folder for example and add this to your AUTOEXEC.bat:</p>
  63                 <pre>C:\DOS\DVORAK.COM</pre>
  64                 <p>When your computer boots the program will say DVORAK is loaded and you're good to go</p>
  65
  66                 <p>The MS-DOS supplemental disk also contains a dvorak keyboard layout. Install and put this in your AUTOEXEC.bat:</p>
  67                 <pre>KEYB DV,,C:\DOS\DVORAK.SYS</pre>
  68
  69                 <h2 id="russian">Russian (2014-10-07</h2>
  70                 <p>When learning russian I had to type some stuff in russian, as I found
  71                 out that there was a phonetic keyboard I was excited but it didn't work on
  72                 dvorak layout. So some guy named Oleg made a phonetic russian keyboard
  73                 layout in dvorak and you can download it
  74                 <a href="files/phonetic_dvorak.gz">here</a>. When you want to use it you
  75                 have to append the information from the file to
  76                         <pre>/usr/share/X11//xkb/symbols/ru</pre>
  77                 When you want to load it you can
  78                 type
  79                         <pre>setxkbmap -layout ru -variant phonetic_dvorak</pre>
  80                 </p>
  81
  82                 <h3 id="russianupdate">Update (2015-04-16)</h3>
  83                 <p>Since having to setup the keyboard after login can be useful if you
  84                 don't have the rights to edit system configuration files on your system(eg.
  85                 work) but it's not a durable solution for your own system. If you want to
  86                 make these things semipermanent you can use the handy program called
  87                 <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/localectl.html">
  88                         localectl
  89                 </a> which writes an xorg.conf.d/ file. In my specific case these are the
  90                 commands to set the keymap for the console and for within X. For the
  91                 console I only use normal dvorak whereas in X I want to be able to
  92                 switch(with menu key) and use the right alt as compose key.
  93                 <pre>
  94 # localectl set-x11-keymap --no-convert dvorak,ru pc104 ,phonetic_dvorak compose:ralt,grp:menu_toggle
  95 # localectl set-keymap --no-convert dvorak
  96                 </pre>
  97                 </p>
  98         </body>
  99 </html>