Dvorak layout

This may be a stupid question, but how do I change my keyboard layout from the standard QWERTY layout to the DVORAK layout?

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Hi Randy,
Go to System Preferences > International > Input Menu,
enable Dvorak, in addition to your US layout
enable also any other layout you might like to use in the future
and tick "show input menu in menubar".
Now you can use the menubar small flags to toggle between your favorite layouts.
HTH
Axl

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    not all of the keyboard shortcuts may have been remapped. for example, any shift-punctuation keys may still be wrong because the shift- and non-shift- versions of the letters may come from different keys on the keyboard. to correct this, we would have to change the mapping in the KeyEvents.plist. this is possible but I want to keep this as simple as possible for the time being. the KeycodeMapping.strings file seems to be the easiest route to go.
    you could do the same for other keyboard layouts with a little investigation as Alex has already proved.
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    Gregory, thank you soooooo much for this!
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    It's great to have keyboard shortcuts working. I did notice that the tool tips that document the keyboard shortcuts are wrong, at least for me. For example, switching to the standard view is Command-option-S. The tool tip indicates Command-Option-O. The Dvorak "O" is mapped over the QWERTY "S". This is a nit of course with respect to the functionality of the keyboard shortcuts.
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    Last edited by friedrich (2009-05-20 15:04:27)

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    // 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.
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    // source: http://www-lehre.informatik.uni-osnabrueck.de/~rfreund/dvorak.php
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    include "us(dvorak)"
    name[Group1]="Germany - Dvorak";
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    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 ] };
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    keycode 66 = Escape
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    keycode 28 = y Y y Y bar
    keycode 31 = c C c C copyright Cacute
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    keycode 38 = a A a A at
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    keycode 40 = e E e E EuroSign
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    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
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    add Lock = Caps_Lock
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  • Norwegian dvorak in console

    Hi there
    I Have just installed ArchLinux, but I couldn't find the norwegian dvorak layout during the installation,
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    Stoffi

    Hei!
    Sjekk ut http://doomtech.net/wiki/index.php/Dvor … our_system
    Last edited by gnud (2007-12-11 00:16:39)

  • The Dvorak keyboard doesn't work

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

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    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!!:)
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    Could I please ask you to consider adding a software Dvorak keyboard layout to the iPad?  It would be a wonderful addition.
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  • 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 )
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    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!
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