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   7                 <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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   9                 <h2>Dvorak russian update (2015-04-16)</h2>
  10                 <p>Since having to setup the keyboard after login can be useful if you
  11                 don't have the rights to edit system configuration files on your system(eg.
  12                 work) but it's not a durable solution for your own system. If you want to
  13                 make these things semipermanent you can use the handy program called
  14                 <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/localectl.html">
  15                         localectl
  16                 </a> which writes an xorg.conf.d/ file. In my specific case these are the
  17                 commands to set the keymap for the console and for within X. For the
  18                 console I only use normal dvorak whereas in X I want to be able to
  19                 switch(with menu key) and use the right alt as compose key.
  20                 <pre>
  21 # localectl set-x11-keymap --no-convert dvorak,ru pc104 ,phonetic_dvorak compose:ralt,grp:menu_toggle
  22 # localectl set-keymap --no-convert dvorak
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  26                 <h2>Dvorak russian (2014-10-07)</h2>
  27                 <p>When learning russian I had to type some stuff in russian, as I found
  28                 out that there was a phonetic keyboard I was excited but it didn't work on
  29                 dvorak layout. So some guy named Oleg made a phonetic russian keyboard
  30                 layout in dvorak and you can download it
  31                 <a href="files/phonetic_dvorak.gz">here</a>. When you want to use it you
  32                 have to append the information from the file to
  33                         <pre>/usr/share/X11//xkb/symbols/ru</pre>
  34                 When you want to load it you can
  35                 type
  36                         <pre>setxkbmap -layout ru -variant phonetic_dvorak</pre>
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  39                 <h2>Dvorak in dos</h2>
  40                 <p>To use dvorak in dos download this <a href="files/dvorak_dos.tar">file</a> containing dvorak.com<br />
  41                 Transfer it to your C:\DOS folder for example and add this to your AUTOEXEC.bat:
  42                 <pre>C:\DOS\DVORAK.COM</pre>
  43                 When your computer boots the program will say DVORAK is loaded and you're good to go</p>
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  45                 <h2>Dvorak in dosbox</h2>
  46                 <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 />
  47                 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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