Re: [SLUG] multiple keyboards?

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Tue Nov 21 2006 - 09:25:27 EST


On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Max F Lang wrote:

> On Monday 20 November 2006 11:52 am, michael hast wrote:
>> I've got an interesting one for you. For quite some time now, I
>> have been thinking of trying out Dvorak. I have an old keyboard that I
>
> I've long had these two functions in my ~/.bashrc file:
>
> asdf() { setxkbmap dvorak; }
> aoeu() { setxkbmap en_US; }
>
> I hit "asdf" at a command prompt and I'm using a two-handed Dvorak. I hit
> "aoeu" (same key strokes) and I'm back using the standard keyboard.

That's much simpler than the X branch of my scripts, but I don't know if
there's a map for Left Hand Dvorak. How do I find out what valid options to
setxkbmap are? I mean there's the man page, and it gives hints about
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb but I can only find one thing there called *dvorak*
(keymap/sgi_vndr/dvorak) and I doubt that's what you're invoking. On
purpose, anyway.

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