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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] USB keyboard remapping

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 04:04:14PM -0400, Adrian Irving-Beer wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 05:37:35AM -0400, Sebastien Bailard wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone know of a way to use key combination like ctrl-shift-f12
> > to toggle dvorak/qwerty?
> 
> I now use my laptop's 'mute' keyboard button for this purpose, and my
> USB keyboard's 'sleep' button.  "hotkeys" is the program I use to
> enable that, since I was already using it for the other keyboard
> hotkey things.
> 
> Then all you need is a script to do the actual switch.  I can post
> mine if you're interested.

While I was learning dvorak, I used a suggestion from Jody McIntyre (I
believe) to alias 'aoeu' to "xmodmap qwerty.map" and 'asdf' to
"xmodmap dvorak.map" (or similar).

Kevin.