I've consistently found Synergy painfully buggy on OS X, though.
Teleport just works, and excellently. However, Synergy does allow
cross-platform pairing -- but that's not a requirement for us since we
all use macs.

Bo

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Mark Wotton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Another option is using synergy from synergy2.sf.net - it lets you
> share a keyboard and mouse between two machines, and it preserves your
> settings. Thus, you could have two machines, one set to Dvorak and the
> other set to Qwerty, and just connect through synergy from one to the
> other.
>
> mark
> another cussed dvorak user
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Jack Chen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> As a Dvorak user, I found that it was always a hurdle to learn
>> something like vim since the keybindings weren't going to be the same
>> for me ('hjkl' etc), so I was interested when I saw the heading come
>> up when Bo and I were watching it at work.
>>
>> We pair program at work, so we did have to deal with the hurdle of
>> having conflicting keyboard layouts while pairing. I use Dvorak, Bo
>> uses Colemak and everyone who aren't as cool as us use QWERTY. There
>> has been plenty of times a pair would have attempted to do something
>> in the other layout and gotten somewhat angry because it didn't do
>> what they wanted.
>>
>> Our setup is we have our own laptops, and one is connected to the 30"
>> monitor. The person without the monitor uses Teleport to control the
>> main screen. As you may know, when you type through Teleport/Screen
>> Sharing, the keys appear in the keyboard layout of the target machine,
>> so that didn't work.
>>
>> I whipped up a quick SIMBL plugin named Telefrag (first stab at Cocoa
>> and SIMBL, actually) for Teleport which allow you to add custom
>> keyboard layouts between computers in Teleport. It's not very smart..
>> you have to symlink the keymap plist that you want to use (It comes
>> with all combinations for QWERTY, Dvorak and Colemak), so if you use
>> Dvorak and your pair is on QWERTY, you would symlink
>> Dvorak_QWERTY.plist to Keymap.plist, etc, but it's helped us overcome
>> this barrier while pair programming, increasing efficiency and
>> improving morale.
>>
>> Works on 10.5 fine, and there's a script you need to run to have it
>> work on Snow Leopard which I'll put up on the git repo if anyone needs
>> it.
>>
>> http://github.com/chendo/telefrag/tree
>>
>> On Feb 4, 3:58 am, Ben Orenstein <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hello Fellow Rails-ers,
>>>
>>> Pardon the shameless self-promotion, but I've just completed something I'm
>>> quite proud of and wanted to share.
>>>
>>> The project is a screencast called Vim For Rails
>>> Developers<http://www.codeulatescreencasts.com/collections/frontpage/products/vi...>.
>>> I write Rails apps full-time using vim, and this video represents the best
>>> of what I've learned for getting stuff done quickly.
>>>
>>> If you're a vim-user writing Ruby or Rails code, I think you'll find a bunch
>>> of useful tips and plugins to make you more productive.  The product is $9,
>>> which I think easily pays for itself with just a few hours saved.
>>>
>>> This is my first venture into a new medium, so feedback is extra welcome!
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ben
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