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Showing posts with label awesomewm. Show all posts
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Thursday, July 18, 2013

[Xorg][Tutorial] Dvorak Keyboard Map Settings In System-Wide[Archlinux]

Yet again, I've discovered an even better means of setting the keyboard layout to dvorak. Much more simple than anything that I've yet discovered. The Archwiki is such a useful place to be when you're searching for answers for a long time problem!

As root, create the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-keyboard.conf.




Then simply add this text to the file using your favorite editor [Mine being Vim]:
 
Section "InputClass"
    Identifier             "Keyboard Defaults"
    MatchIsKeyboard       "yes"
    Option               "XkbLayout" "dvorak"
EndSection




Then restart X (or logout and back in) and you're finished!

It even works for slim [Logging in with DVORAK at long last is possible!]:


Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Awesome-WM: How to Set Dvorak [or other keyboard layouts] as default.

In my personal experiences with AwesomeWM, I could not seem to set the DVORAK keyboard layout without messing around with the xorg.conf files, and even then it was to no avail.

As an actual solution [or in other words 'work around' to this, the ~/.xinitrc file must contain:

setxkbmap -layout dvorak [or ru, fr, etc..]

Before the line:

exec awesome

And that should solve the issue.

Friday, March 22, 2013

Frustration: AwesomeWM & My Use of Dvorak

Seeing as I have this lovely devotion to the DVORAK keyboard layout (to the extent that I literally rearranged the entire keyboard, upside down keys and all, specifically to facilitate this need), I tend to get extremely frustrated by what seems to be a bug in Awesomewm.

At first, it was just a minor annoyance, and then gradually it became a bit more than a nuisance as I literally have to reach into my 3 - 5 years of qwerty knowledge in order to remember what which key was supposed to be. Mind you, I've memorized the Qwerty and Dvorak style because there are those times in school where I have no choice but to use it.

This is all besides the point,

Which is that awesomewm is a great Window Manager but it doesn't seem to keep to anything I tell it to, which is extremely frustrating when I have to type Mod4 + R. I've looked into Xorg on the archwiki, amongst other things in the AwesomeWiki, but it seems that the only thing that ever solves it is restarting awesome after typing in "setkbmap dvorak" into a terminal. Thankfully, I have zsh, and that helped me through a lot of the worries because once I find the "s" on the keyboard (Which is right next to a for those that are wondering, where it used to be on Qwerty), I just had to press the up arrow key and found what I wanted.

If I find a solution for this, I'll write up a tutorial.