On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 21:53, Roger Chrisman wrote:

How do I set Dvorak keyboard emulation in SuSE 3.7?

Please help,

Roger :-) trapped in Qwerty

hi, here is how i do it... attached is keysym.dvorak once in your desktop, open a shell and type

xmodmap -pke >keys.default

that'll give you a backup of your current keymap in case the next thing messes you up:

xmodmap keysym.dvorak

and there you have it. to switch back to QWERTY, type:

xmodmap keys.default

note on some setups you may need to uncomment the line !keycode 26 = 1 exclam if you have trouble with your 1 key or . key :) if you are really clever, put that xmodmap command into a shell script and put it in your .kde/Autostart so you don't have to do it every time you log in. I don't know why, but the keyboard settings in KDE all seem to be for x86 boxes. Why x86 keymaps are even included in PPC distros is a complete mystery to me! (there are x86 console maps too) note, this trick is only for XF86 ... it won't change your text consoles. I actually hand-edited a whole console keymap for dvorak on PPC, and then erased it somehow. It worked quite nicely. But that proved it can be done... and it wasn't terribly difficult, either. --isaac