Speakup laptop layout

Nick Stockton nstockton at gmail.com
Mon Feb 2 23:21:54 EST 2009


hmmm I type in Dvorak as well and haven't had any problems with speakup's 
laptop layout.
I have the command "loadkeys dvorak" in my rc.local script.

Nick Stockton
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David CSercsics" <aarg at shaw.ca>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: Speakup laptop layout


> On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 01:24:02PM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>    If I may ask as a matter of interest, why do you want to get rid of
>> that layout?  I've just never had the good fortune to use Speakup with a
>> full numeric keypad, and that layout has saved me on numerous occasions.
>
> Because I type in Dvorak and the layout was not designed for my keymap.
> I hate laptop keyboards so I try to plug in an external one when i
> can. I also like the way that my laptop does numpad emulation when I
> use its keyboard  anyway. I'd also like to not have to press shift with
> the capslock key to get it to activate because that is not standard PC
> keyboard behaviour. I don't use that key hardly at all but when I do
> I'd like it to work properly.
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