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#+TITLE: ryuk
#+STARTUP: showall
* Introduction
I've been using [[http://colemak.com][colemak]] for quite a while now and I really like it.
The fact that basically only the letters change position (aside from
~;~ and ~:~) really makes learning it easier than some alternatives
would.
I came across [[http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/index.html][Programmer Dvorak]] a little while ago, and found the
idea of having symbols on the keyboard without needing the Shift key
very enticing. It made me think real hard about maybe learning
Dvorak after all, even though I'd previously chosen colemak
*because* it didn't change the places of any symbols and such.
I decided against it, though. I've invested quite a few hours
getting proficient with colemak, and I'd hate for that to have been
in vain. So I decided to try and change colemak's symbol positions,
or some of them anyway.
I didn't change the order of the number keys, though Shift is now
required to use them, because I didn't like the idea. These numbers
have been ingrained into my brain since the beginning of time, or
at least ever since I first sat behind a PC. Reading the Programmer
Dvorak page makes me believe that there is good reason to change
their order, but I thought that any benefits gained would not
outweigh the benefit of blindly knowing where they are. However, it
is of course possible that this may change in the future, since I
also thought something similar when I first switched to colemak, but
then about symbol keys in general.
I also didn't shift the number keys one place to the right, as
Programmer Dvorak does. This is because even though I'm sure that
that would work very well on a standard keyboard layout, it would
ruin the symmetric properties of my [[https://www.trulyergonomic.com/store/index.php][Truly Ergonomic Keyboard]]. Right
now the ~(~ and ~)~ are both placed directly above my index fingers,
and since I spend quite a bit of my free time writing various forms
of Lisp code that is extra cool.
* Installation
** X11
To install and use the X11 keyboard, copy the ~xkb/ryuk~ file to where
XKB looks for these files. In my case this is
~/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols~. Once put in the proper place, next to,
for example, ~us~, set your =XkbVariant= to ~ryuk~. For example, I have in
my ~/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf~ file the following:
#+BEGIN_SRC conf
# ...
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
Option "XkbLayout" "ryuk"
EndSection
# ...
#+END_SRC
Since your distribution may have Xorg configured differently, you
may have to specify it in a different file or a different section,
but please note that only the line starting with ~Option~ was put
there by me.
** TTY
To install the TTY keyboard layout you should gzip the
~kbd/ryuk.map~ file, which can be achieved by running ~make~ from the
~kbd~ map, and put the resulting file where the kbd utilities can find
them. In my case this is ~/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/colemak/~, and I
choose the ~colemak~ directory because the ~ryuk~ files are based
directly off the colemak files.
Once put in the proper place you should specify that the TTY should
use your keymap by putting the following in your ~/etc/vconsole.conf~:
#+BEGIN_SRC sh
KEYMAP=ryuk
#+END_SRC
This should work at least on systems that use systemd. I don't know
how other init systems set it.
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