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