Dvorak Keyboard Layout

Is there a Dvorak keyboard layout available for the iPhone?
While I touch type on the standard QWERTY keyboard, I find the Dvorak layout much better suited for typing with my thumbs.
Who do I ask for one if there isn't one now?
Thanks,
Byron

Byron C. Mayes,
You are welcome to suggest it on the feedback page the link for the iPhone is:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
However, speaking personally, I would think the reasons for the way QWERTY is laid out might be valid on the iPhone. QWERTY is laid out the way it is so that letters that are likely to appear together in English are separated to avoid accidental keystrokes.
Hope this helps,
Nathan C.

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DVORAK keyboard layout on Macbook Pro

Does anyone know if the keycaps pop off easily on the Macbook Pro as they do on the Powerbooks so I can arrange the keys in a Dvorak layout? Thanks.

As for popping off keys to re-arrange them, according to this post (scroll down to Randall Jenkins' post), it can be done. Just use a small screwdriver and pry the keys off carefully.

The Dvorak keyboard doesn't work

I set my setting as dvorak but it doesn't work, the keyboard is still normal.

Figuring that it at least won't hurt, I submitted the following feedback at the link below.
Maybe if lots of people ask for this feature, there'll be more chance they'll consider it.
Here was my request:
Hi,
I own both an ipad 2 and iPad 1. Both allow for a hardware keyboard layout of Dvorak, but iOS 5 does not have a software keyboard layout in Dvorak.
The Dvorak layout is a high efficiency keyboard layout that places the most commonly used English vowels and consonants under the touch-typist's home keys and is designed to speed up typing. This is as opposed to the Qwerty layout which was created to slow down the typist so that manual typewriters would not jam (and how long has it been since you've used a manual typewriter!!:)
I've been using Dvorak for 11 years, so it's really difficult to change back to the inefficient Qwerty layout.
Could I please ask you to consider adding a software Dvorak keyboard layout to the iPad? It would be a wonderful addition.
Thank you for considering my request,

IPad Dvorak Keyboard

Hello all (sorry for the long message; the big discovery is down at the paragraph "The Punchline"),
I learned the Dvorak keyboard a few years ago and have enjoyed the amazing user-friendliness of the layout, and my typing speed now is even faster than it ever was before. (For those of you who haven't heard of the Dvorak keyboard, go here: http://www.dvorak-keyboards.com/Dvorak%20keyboard%20typing%20index.htm )
This means that my *purchasing an iPad* in contingent on iPad having the option of a *Dvorak keyboard layout option built-in* — the way that the Dvorak keyboard layout is built-in to all Macs and PCs. On my iPhone I am used to switching between English, Spanish, Italian and other international keyboards (which you should try if you haven't already for the usfel auto-spell feature in the other languages) so being able to switch between the standard U.S. QWERTY keyboard layout and Dvorak would be beautifully easy for the user and equally intuitive.
Dvorak also invented a version of the keyboard layout for someone who _only has use of the right hand_, and a version for just the _left hand_. Naturally, this would be incredibly useful for new iPad users! Just like we can switch between foreign language keyboards at will on the iPhone and iPad, we should be able to switch between two-handed Dvorak in landscape view and have right-handed (or left-handed Dvorak) in portrait view on the iPad. Wouldn't that be cool? The real crime is not that these layouts don't already exist for the iPad — but that they are only 3rd-party right now (I could program it myself if I had to), and one must jail-break an iPad or iPhone to activate what is built-in on every Mac since the Apple II in 1984.
(One-handed Dvorak layouts: http://www.dvorak-keyboards.com/rightand_left_hand_dvorak_keyboardlayouts.htm )
*The Punchline:* An hour ago, I wanted to check to see if there were right-hand or left-hand Dvorak keyboard layouts in OSX on my Mac burried somewhere in the International Preferences in System Preferences (I hadn't seen in it the past). To my surprise, "International Preferences" in System Preferences is now called "Language and Text" ! (this must be a new update very recently) and right next to the regular Dvorak keyboard layout in the list is "Dvorak - Right" and "Dvorak - Left"! Did anyone else notice this?
My theory is that Apple intends make these right- and left-handed layouts available to iPad users somehow — why else would they just mysteriously show up now? If one has use of both hands, they're not that useful for a regular computer, but on an iPad ...!
Comments? Theories? Ideas? I want an iPad but I won't get one until it has Dvorak — and if it has Dvorak Right and Dvorak Left I'll buy it tomorrow!
- Luke

As noted elsewhere, you can use the Dvorak layout with an external keyboard now, which is very nice. Many of us Dvorakites have written to Apple over the years about this issue since they have always supported Dvorak on Macs.
I do think it's unfortunate and odd that Dvorak is not support for the iPad screen. If this is something you need (as I do) I've found that the app SlideIT (about $3) designed for Android which I'm able to use on a Samsung 7" Galaxy tablet seems to work well in all the applications that I've tested it with.
In addition, SlideIT offers the ability to move you finger around the keyboard (whether querty or Dvorak is active) and built the word up that way. This is a particular nice feature for a tablet. As I recall this technology was first created by IBM and dubbed ATOMIC or something like that. Anyway, it is unique in my experience to be able to combine Dvorak and slide entry and I'm lovin' it!

Alternative keyboard layouts

Hey everyone,
So I was considering making the move from QWERTY to a keyboard layout that's a little more efficient, so I thought I'd take a poll to see
who is using what kind of keyboard layout and why. I'm curious about Dvorak, programmer's Dvorak, and colemak, and have been researching each of their individual pros and cons. I'm thinking Dvorak sounds like the best out of all of the above, but colemak sounds relatively intregueing as well. so what's your opinion?

Just to let everybody know I am now 28 years old. I first learned how to type in typing class in junior high. I was using the Qwerty layout. The only nice thing I can say about the Qwerty layout is that it's available at any computer you want to use without any configuration.
Then I looked online for a better way to type and more efficient. That's when I learned about Dvorak keyboard layout. This was about four years ago. I stuck with it for about two years. I felt my right hand was doing a lot more typing than my left hand. It felt too lopsided for me. But that's just my opinion. I went on the hunt for something better than Dvorak and I found the glorious Colemak keyboard layout.
I have been typing with it ever since. My hands are a lot more comfortable and I can type faster now. It took me a month to actually get comfortable with the keyboard layout. If you actually go to this Java applet on Colemak's website.
www.colemak.com/Compare
You can just copy and paste a body of text and click on Calculate it will analyze the typing and compare the three different keyboard layouts. I just hope it becomes an ANSI standard like Dvorak has. I hope that happens in the future.
I just want everybody to know there is a third option out there and its great. If ever Colemak goes away I will be going back to Dvorak. I will never learn the Qwerty keyboard layout ever again.
Just wanted to give my two cents worth.

[SOLVED] Not all Dvorak Keybourd Layouts work!

Hi everyone,
I hope this is the right place to ask that question. I am using a Dvorak keyboard layout for about a year now. However, as I am native German and I do use Emacs a lot, I adjusted the Classic Dvorak Keyboard with some additional features such as adding Umlauts to the layout, switching Control/Caps_Lock, Alt/Tab and making it easier to stroke certain sequences, like $/{, which often occur when typing maths.
The default Dvorak layout that comes with Arch Linux is the so-called Simplified Dvorak Layout. I am more than happy to write my own layout-file, however, it doesn't seem to work the way I tried. Here is what I did so far:
I found all the keyboard layouts, including the Dvorak Simplified one, in the following directory:
/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/dvorak/dvorak.map.gz
As root:
cp /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/dvorak/dvorak.map.gz .
gunzip dvorak.map.gz
cp dvorak.map dvorak-prof.map
vim dvorak-prof.map # Here I changed stuff, e.g.flipping Control/Caps_Lock
gzip dvorak-prof.map
cp dvorak-prof.map.gz /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/dvorak/
I did everything as root as to make sure that the resulting files dvorak.map and dvorak.map.gz have the same reading/writing-permissions as the original dvorak.map and dvorak.map.gz.
For testing I typed during a X-session:
bash-3.2# setxkbmap dvorak-prof
Error loading new keyboard description
New interestingly, I get the same error when loading any one of the other Dvorak layouts, apart from dvorak:
bash-3.2# setxkbmap dvorak-l
Error loading new keyboard description
bash-3.2# setxkbmap dvorak-r
Error loading new keyboard description
bash-3.2# setxkbmap ANSI-dvorak
Error loading new keyboard description
bash-3.2# setxkbmap dvorak
bash-3.2#
The last command being successful. So, the failure of loading my modified layout file is not necessarily due to a failure in parsing the modified dvorak-prof.map, though I don't know how to check this.
So my question is: What's wrong with dvorak-l, dvorak-r, ANSI-dvorak and dvorak-prof?
Thanks for your help!
Cheers,
Thomas
Last edited by friedrich (2009-05-20 15:04:27)

Hi Thomas,
i am a native german too and some time ago i found the dvorak thing and was very fascinated.
Especially when i saw the one for programmers. However, i spent one day fiddling around with
keyboard layouts, googling about it etc.
At least i took another Approach.
In the file
/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/de
you can find the layout for germand dvorak, i adopted everything
to fit my needs. But what was not possible in there was to make
the "b" key on my keyboard act as Backspace so i called for xmodmap
and created a .xmodmap file in my home folder.
And while i was playing i decided to remap the escape function to the
the caps lock key and vice versa.
So everything i wanted was possible with that approach.
I start it all with:
setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout de -variant dvorak
xmodmap ~/.xmodmap
Here is the relevant part of the symbols/de file:
// German Dvorak keymap by Thorsten Staerk (www.staerk.de/thorsten)
// Have acute and grave as dead keys, tilde and circumflex alive as they are needed
// in many programming languages.
// to use this keymap, use a 105-key-keyboard and the command setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout dvorak -variant de
// source: http://www-lehre.informatik.uni-osnabrueck.de/~rfreund/dvorak.php
partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "dvorak" {
include "us(dvorak)"
name[Group1]="Germany - Dvorak";
key <TLDE> { [ dollar, asciitilde ] };
key <AE01> { [ ampersand, percent ] };
key <AE02> { [ bracketleft, 7, apostrophe ] };
key <AE03> { [ braceleft, 5, bar ] };
key <AE04> { [ braceright, 3, less ] };
key <AE05> { [ parenleft, 1, greater ] };
key <AE06> { [ equal, 9, quotedbl ] };
key <AE07> { [ asterisk, 0 ] };
key <AE08> { [ parenright, 2 ] };
key <AE09> { [ plus, 4 ] };
key <AE10> { [ bracketright, 6 ] };
key <AE11> { [ exclam, 8, exclamdown ] };
key <AE12> { [ numbersign, grave, dead_grave ] };
key <AD01> { [ udiaeresis, Udiaeresis, apostrophe ] };
key <AD02> { [ comma, semicolon, less ] };
key <AD03> { [ period, colon, greater ] };
key <AD04> { [ p, P, quotedbl ] } ;
key <AD05> { [ y, Y, bar ] } ;
key <AD08> { [ c, C, copyright, Cacute ] };
key <AD09> { [ t, T, trademark ] };
key <AD10> { [ z, Z, zabovedot, Zabovedot ] };
key <AD11> { [ question, ssharp ] };
key <AD12> { [ slash, backslash, dead_acute ] };
key <AC01> { [ a, A, at, aogonek ] };
key <AC02> { [ o, O, asciicircum, Oacute ] };
key <AC03> { [ e, E, EuroSign, eogonek ] };
key <AC04> { [ i, I ] };
key <AC05> { [ u, U ] };
key <AC06> { [ h, H ] };
key <AC07> { [ d, D ] };
key <AC08> { [ r, R, registered ] };
key <AC09> { [ n, N, nacute, Nacute ] };
key <AC10> { [ s, S, sacute, Sacute] };
key <AC11> { [ l, L, lstroke, Lstroke ] };
key <AB01> { [ odiaeresis, Odiaeresis ] };
key <AB02> { [ q, Q, at ] };
key <AB06> { [ x, X ] };
key <AB07> { [ b, B ] };
key <AB08> { [ m, M, mu ] };
key <AB09> { [ w, W ] };
key <AB10> { [ v, V ] };
key <BKSL> { [ minus, underscore, hyphen, diaeresis] };
key <LSGT> { [ adiaeresis, Adiaeresis, bar ] };
include "level3(ralt_switch)"
And here goes my .xmodmap:
keycode 56 = BackSpace
keycode 9 = Caps_Lock
keycode 66 = Escape
keycode 27 = p P p P quotedbl
keycode 28 = y Y y Y bar
keycode 31 = c C c C copyright Cacute
keycode 32 = t T t T trademark
keycode 38 = a A a A at
keycode 39 = o O o O asciicircum
keycode 40 = e E e E EuroSign
keycode 45 = r R r R registered
keycode 52 = odiaeresis Odiaeresis Home Home Home
keycode 53 = q Q q Q End End End
keycode 54 = j J j J Prior Prior
keycode 55 = k K k K Next Next
clear Lock
add Lock = Caps_Lock
Some things are redundant, but i was to lazy to delete them.
Maybe this helps you to achieve what you want.
And i think you may have to adapt some keys to the correct
keycode, depending on your keyboard.
You can find the correct keycode with 'xev'.

Changing my keyboard layout

Hello,
I am proficient in typing in the Dvorak keyboard layout.
It took me a while to find but in OS 10.4> System Preferences> International it is there as a selectable option. Once selected I can switch back and forth from the top bar in the finder.
However... way back when I first learned Dvorak I swapped the positions of "i" and "u" (Why would I do such a stupid thing?) I did this because it made Dvorak (as great as it is) into an even more efficient layout.
In OS 8- OS 9 I simple went to the system file, duplicated the Dvoark keyboard layout, Renamed the duplicate "Dvorak IU" and then proceeded to swap "i" and "u" with ResEdit 2.1.3.
But now in OS 10 I am befuddled.
How to I create or add or edit to enable Dvorak IU
in the international pane of the system preferences?
Please Help, O Master

Hi,
and welcome to the discussions.
The default keyboard layouts reside in /System/Library/Keyboard Layouts. Each layout is packaged inside a bundle, you may view the contents by ctrl-clicking (right click) one and using Show package contents command. I would not recommend editing default ones.
Because OS X is a multiuser OS each user has own Library. You could create your own layout and save it inside your own library. Path is yourshortname/Library/Keyboard Layouts. That would leave the system intact in case something goes wrong.
There are several utilities available. One of a kind is Ukekele and the SIL has lots of useful information available among the list of other utilities.
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?siteid=nrsi&itemid=ukelele
Juha

IPod touch photo album glitch + Keyboard layout

Hi everyone. I have had this erreor since I updated to the latest software. Whenever I go into the photos on my iPod, I can't access one of my photo albums, and I can't quite explain why, I'll let the picture do the tallking.
Also, is there any way to get Dvorak keyboard layout on here? I tried to go nito the keybaord layou and Dvorak did exist under "Hardware keyboard," but I tried it and it didn't do anything.. it wouldn't be such a big deal, but I uso Dvorak on my desktop always, and Qwerty is really throwing me off!

Will that replace the standard keyboard or will I have to run it EVERY time I want to type something?

Can't get fr-dvorak-bepo keyboard layout in my console

Hello everbody!
I'm using a dvorak-bepo keyboard layout everywhere in my X environnoment but I can't managed to get it to works in my ttys…
I've installed the right package and placed the fr-dvorak-bepo.map.gz in /usr/share/kdb/keymaps/i386/dvorak/
In my rc.conf I've put KEYMAP=fr-dvorak-bepo : not working.
So I've tried with KEYMAP="fr-dvorak-bepo" : not working.
And I've tried with the absolute path KEYMAP=/usr/share/kdb/keymaps/i386/dvorak/fr-dvorak-bepo.map.gz and KEYMAP="/usr/share/kdb/keymaps/i386/dvorak/fr-dvorak-bepo.map.gz" but both don't work.
I always get a [FAIL] for my KEYMAP when modules are loaded during the starting up process.
It's a bit boring to login with a qwerty keyboard and use some commands with querty but in bepo in Xorg
I really hope someone can help me with that…

Hello everbody!
I'm using a dvorak-bepo keyboard layout everywhere in my X environnoment but I can't managed to get it to works in my ttys…
I've installed the right package and placed the fr-dvorak-bepo.map.gz in /usr/share/kdb/keymaps/i386/dvorak/
In my rc.conf I've put KEYMAP=fr-dvorak-bepo : not working.
So I've tried with KEYMAP="fr-dvorak-bepo" : not working.
And I've tried with the absolute path KEYMAP=/usr/share/kdb/keymaps/i386/dvorak/fr-dvorak-bepo.map.gz and KEYMAP="/usr/share/kdb/keymaps/i386/dvorak/fr-dvorak-bepo.map.gz" but both don't work.
I always get a [FAIL] for my KEYMAP when modules are loaded during the starting up process.
It's a bit boring to login with a qwerty keyboard and use some commands with querty but in bepo in Xorg
I really hope someone can help me with that…

Changing keyboard layouts, the difficult way. Japanese layout into Dvorak.

Hello,
I was wondering if there is a way to change the keyboard layout systemwise.
The thing is I usually use a keyboard layout that is very similar to dvorak, of course I have a working layout for this and that's what I'm using right now.
But now and then, I need to write some japanese as well. What I would like to do is to remap the japanese layout into a dvorak table and still be able to get the shift-jis input.
In windows it was possible to go into regedit and just change a string and voila you did it. Is there any similiar way in doing it in OSX?

On a sidenote, the keyboard layout I'm using is downloaded off the internet and then installed, so I'm guessing the layouts that you can choose from are sort of pre-set.
I have a couple downloaded layouts listed in mine, so I don't think these are pre-set. But I think they must be Roman (script) and perhaps must be installed in Home/Library/Keyboard Layouts. If you would like to send me your layout, I can see if there is a problem with it (tom at bluesky dot org).

Setting keyboard layout with Mate Desktop

Hi everyone,
I use now Mate Desktop following the wiki <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MATE>.
Since mate-display-manager doesn't work, I use SliM with auto login.
I'm using french dvorak keyboard (bépo), and I put it in System > Preferences > Keyboard, and removed the other one. But it's not working, it's using default US keyboard.
Does anyone had the same issue ?
Thanks.

The DE doesn't matter if you change the keyboard layout in Xorg.
Here's my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-keyboard.conf:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Keyboard Defaults"
MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
Option "XkbLayout" "us, ro(std)"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle, grp_led:scroll, terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
EndSection
Make sure you don't have another keyboard section in some other xorg.conf (/etc/xorg.conf or /etc/X11/xorg.conf) or in a different *.conf file in the "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/" folder. Because one may inhibit the other.

[SOLVED] Awesome 3.5 using english keyboard layout instead of Xorg's

Keyboard layout was OK on 3.4.
For 3.5 and git version, Awesome defaults to english layout. Calling awesome.restart() (e.g. with SUPER+SHIFT+R) will correctly set the layout according to Xorg config. That's quite annoying indeed.
Only Awesome is affected, i.e. all other applications will use the Xorg config. So basically the affected parts are
* key bindings
* Run command
* Run lua code
Using
* up to date x86_64 system
* blank user session
* startx and 'exec awesome' as the sole command.
I couldn't find any related issue on the web, seems strange to me since I shouldn't be the only one using a non-english keyboard layout !
Any idea ?
Last edited by Ambrevar (2013-08-02 20:01:32)

Same here, but as with nomorewindows case, I just need to restart awesome, but I need to do it every time I boot. Both my console and X are configured to dvorak, but in X it's set through .xinitrc.
I'm going to try and see whether putting
echo "awesome.restart()" | awesome-client
into my .xinitrc will help.
By the way, my .xinitrc starts awesome in the following way:
awesome & wmpid=$!
[whole bunch of misery involving mpd, urxvt and setting the keymap in X]
[above for restarting awesome]
wait $wmpid

Dvorak uk layout (alternative) keymap file

Hi
I've created an alternative UK variant of the dvorak.map keymap found in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/dvorak/dvorak.map.gz. This keymap is in line with the wikipedia british english dvorak layout which looks like this:
This is the keymap that would be specified in /etc/rc.conf.
It wasn't clear to me which keymaps to use when configuring runlevel 3, the gnome 3 window manager, or GDM; below is what I finally used for each (after several days of pain...):
RunLevel 3
Copy the keymap linked above to /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/dvorak/dvorakuk.map
In /etc/rc.conf, edit the KEYMAP line to read
KEYMAP="dvorakuk.map"
Gnome 3
System Settings>>Keyboard>>Typing>>Layout Settings
Click +
Select 'English (UK, Dvorak)'
#note that the keymap labelled as 'English (UK, Dvorak with UK Punctuation)' is very similar to the layout of classic dvorak with minimal movements to accommodate the sterling symbol. Unfortunately I have already configured my windows installation and keyboards at home and at work to use the wikipedia mapping above...
GDM
Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf
Make the section with the identifier labelled as evdev keyboard catchall as
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
Option "XkbVariant" "dvorak"
#Option "XkbModel" "microsoft4000"
EndSection
The XkbModel line is optional; you can identify which keyboard models are available in the file found at /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.lst
Hopefully someone else will also find this useful.
# dvorak uk layout
# adapted from dvorak keymap
# sterling added
# at and quotedbl switched
# numbersign and backslash moved
# 2012-04-02 21:36:11
keymaps 0-2,4-6,8-9,12
alt_is_meta
include "linux-with-alt-and-altgr.inc"
strings as usual
keycode 1 = Escape
keycode 2 = one exclam
keycode 3 = two quotedbl
keycode 4 = three sterling
keycode 5 = four dollar dollar Control_backslash
keycode 6 = five percent
control keycode 6 = Control_bracketright
keycode 7 = six asciicircum
control keycode 7 = Control_asciicircum
keycode 8 = seven ampersand Control_underscore
keycode 9 = eight asterisk bracketleft Delete
keycode 10 = nine parenleft bracketright
keycode 11 = zero parenright braceright
keycode 12 = bracketleft braceleft
control keycode 12 = Escape
keycode 13 = bracketright braceright Control_bracketright
keycode 14 = Delete
keycode 15 = Tab
shift keycode 15 = Meta_Tab
keycode 16 = apostrophe at
control keycode 16 = Control_g
keycode 17 = comma less
keycode 18 = period greater
keycode 19 = p
keycode 20 = y
keycode 21 = f
keycode 22 = g
keycode 23 = c
keycode 24 = r
keycode 25 = l
keycode 26 = slash question
control keycode 26 = Delete
keycode 27 = equal plus
keycode 28 = Return
alt keycode 28 = Meta_Control_m
keycode 29 = Control
keycode 30 = a
keycode 31 = o
keycode 32 = e
keycode 33 = u
keycode 34 = i
keycode 35 = d
keycode 36 = h
keycode 37 = t
keycode 38 = n
keycode 39 = s
keycode 40 = minus underscore backslash Control_underscore Control_underscore
keycode 41 = grave notsign bar nul
control keycode 41 = nul
keycode 42 = Shift
keycode 43 = numbersign asciitilde
control keycode 43 = Control_backslash
keycode 44 = semicolon colon
keycode 45 = q
keycode 46 = j
keycode 47 = k
keycode 48 = x
keycode 49 = b
keycode 50 = m
keycode 51 = w
keycode 52 = v
keycode 53 = z
keycode 54 = Shift
keycode 56 = Alt
keycode 57 = space
control keycode 57 = nul
keycode 58 = Caps_Lock
keycode 86 = backslash bar bar Control_backslash
keycode 97 = Control
If anyone can tell me how to suggest this variant be included in the default install, I would appreciate it...
Lee
Last edited by leejkennedy (2014-04-24 21:10:39)

You might want to install the keyboard layout from AUR (workman-git). The console workman keymap is not part of the default installation.

Trying to change the keyboard layout on my 5800

I simply want to change the keyboard layout to Dvorak (because that is the layout I use). It is not one you can buy the phone with.
I've done many hours of searching and it seems the only thing that may have done it was MagicKey which can remap keys. However MagicKey is now UNUSABLE because it is not signed and the Symbian people do not allow you to sign it in any way (even self sign) if you are not the original developer of the app.
Am I missing something ? Why is Nokia's S60 platform so closed ?
Thanks for reading this!

hi there,
could you provide the community with a little more information to help narrow troubleshooting? What is your operating system and what program are we printing from? Does this happen with all documents (like word and notepad or similar)?
You can say thanks by clicking the Kudos Star in my post. If my post resolves your problem, please mark it as Accepted Solution so others can benefit too.

Windows keyboard layouts on Arch

Hi everyone,
I always wanted a Dvorak keyboard, so I swapped the keys in mine to get an italian Dvorak keyboard, the iDvorak.
Unfortunately Linux doesn't natively support this layout and the iDvorak team only released a Windows version.
I have the DLL file, can I convert it or use it in Linux somehow or I have to design my own Linux kbd layout?
Thanks
PS: This is the dll file
Last edited by TheGatorade (2013-01-28 17:44:19)

jakobcreutzfeldt wrote:
You'll have to design your own (man xmodmap).
Alternatively, you can try using a similar layout. The original Dvorak is quite close to the Italian one, except it doesn't allow accents. The Spanish Dvorak is similar as well, allowing accents, but it swaps 'h' and 'r'. Since Dvorak is supposed to be arranged according to letter frequency, and I'm willing to bet that Italian is closer to Spanish than English in letter usage, the Spanish one might be even more appropriate for you than that Italian one!
Honestly, I'm surprised that none of the letters were moved from their English positions for the Italian one...it seems not much research went into it.
Edit: sorry, this post is confusing. Short answer: use Spanish Dvorak. That Italian one doesn't look good for Italian.
Thank you for your answer. I will try it.

Dvorak Keyboard Layout

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