> I have not been able to get Colemak to work on the Ben, but I plan to > use it. Even with thumb typing in qwerty and by my crude kitchen-timer > tests, I was getting about 20-23 wpm with just thumbs. I also want to > get Colemak on the Ben just for the hack value. In that light, Dvorak > would be good too, and maybe we could invent a layout at Qi that is > optimized for thumb typing. Using Gtypist, I could easily see which > layout gave me best results over time. I have switched to Colemak > since about a year ago on all my other computers.
Hi Cenobyte, if you search the mailinglist archives, I think we already had a thread about changing keyboard layouts (to dvorak). IIRC at least Kyak made his ben work with a russian layout, so colmak & dvorak should be possible. Last time the topic came up, I also pointed out, that the Emacs-Editor has a dvorak layout input method. Being an input method, the changed layout only applies to typing, though and not to any of the emacs shortcuts (which may actually be a feature, given that shortcuts are optimized by key location). In Emacs, just type: <Esc> x set-input-method <Ret> english-dvorak <Ret> Here are some mailinglist archive mails that come up via Google. There should be more, though. http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/pipermail/discussion/2011-April/007705.html Ah, and here are the files that magically make the Ben work with russian layout. Maybe this could be used as a basis for implementing dvorak/colemak: http://projects.qi-hardware.com/index.php/p/openwrt-packages/source/tree/master/ben-cyrillic/files I.e. "russion.sh" changes keymap of the current console, using the keymap "ben_ru_uni.map. I'd think that all the other font-changing and unicode encoding hacks are unneccessary for english layouts. cheers, David -- GnuPG public key: http://dvdkhlng.users.sourceforge.net/dk.gpg Fingerprint: B17A DC95 D293 657B 4205 D016 7DEF 5323 C174 7D40
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