103 lines
4.6 KiB
Org Mode
103 lines
4.6 KiB
Org Mode
#+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. The fact
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that basically only the letters change position (aside from ~;~ and ~:~) really
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makes learning it easier than some alternatives 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 idea of
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having symbols on the keyboard without needing the Shift key very enticing. It
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made me think real hard about maybe learning Dvorak after all, even though I'd
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previously chosen colemak *because* it didn't change the places of any symbols
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and such.
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I decided against it, though. I've invested quite a few hours getting
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proficient with colemak, and I'd hate for that to have been in vain. So I
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decided to try and change colemak's symbol positions, or some of them anyway.
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I didn't change the order of the number keys, though Shift is now required to
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use them, because I didn't like the idea. These numbers have been ingrained
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into my brain since the beginning of time, or at least ever since I first sat
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behind a PC. Reading the Programmer Dvorak page makes me believe that there is
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good reason to change their order, but I thought that any benefits gained
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would not 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 also thought
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something similar when I first switched to colemak, but then about symbol keys
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in general.
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I also didn't shift the number keys one place to the right, as Programmer
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Dvorak does. This is because even though I'm sure that that would work very
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well on a standard keyboard layout, it would ruin the symmetric properties of
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my [[https://www.trulyergonomic.com/store/index.php][Truly Ergonomic Keyboard]]. Right now the ~(~ and ~)~ are both placed directly
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above my index fingers, and since I spend quite a bit of my free time writing
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various forms of Lisp code that is extra cool.
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#+CAPTION: Ryuk on a Truly Ergonomic Keyboard
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#+ATTR_HTML: :align center
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[[file:assets/keyboard-layout.png]]
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This image was created with the [[http://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com][Keyboard Layout Editor]]. This repository
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contains the [[file:assets/keyboard-layout.json][source code]] for it.
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* Installation
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** Linux
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On Linux there's 2 ways you can install the keyboard layout. [[X11]] for the
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graphical environment and [[TTY]] for the non-graphical environment.
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*** X11
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To install and use the X11 keyboard, copy the ~xkb/ryuk~ file to where XKB
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looks for these files. In my case this is ~/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols~. Once
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put in the proper place, next to, for example, ~us~, set your =XkbVariant= to
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~ryuk~. For example, I have in my ~/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf~ file the
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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 may have
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to specify it in a different file or a different section, but please note
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that only the line starting with ~Option~ was put there by me.
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*** TTY
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To install the TTY keyboard layout you should gzip the ~kbd/ryuk.map~ file,
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which can be achieved by running ~make~ from the ~kbd~ map, and put the
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resulting file where the kbd utilities can find them. In my case this is
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~/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/colemak/~, and I choose the ~colemak~ directory
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because the ~ryuk~ files are based directly off the colemak files.
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Once put in the proper place you should specify that the TTY should use your
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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 how
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other init systems set it.
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** Windows
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On Windows you will need to install the [[https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=22339][Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator 1.4]]
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to be able to compile the keyboard layout. Once installed open the =ryuk.klc=
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file in it and go to Project -> Build DLL and Setup Package. Once this has
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finished it'll ask you if you want to open the directory it's built the files
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in (which should be =%USERPROFILE%\Documents\ryuk=). Go to that directory and
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run =setup.exe=. After the installation is finished you'll have to restart
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Windows and then you can start using the keyboard layout.
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