Dvorak keyboard in Ubuntu/Xubuntu
For my own reference, a couple of ways of setting up the Dvorak keyboard in Ubuntu Linux.
In Gnome:
System > Preferences > Keyboard > Layouts tab > Add button > Dvorak
For a single terminal session:
loadkeys dvorak
Adding this line to your .bashrc
should result in it applying to all your terminal sessions.
All X sessions (including the GDM logon screen and Gnome):
For all X sessions (including the GDM logon screen and Gnome), add Option "XbdLayout" "dvorak"
to /etc/X11/xorg.conf
as such:
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "kbd" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "dvorak,gb" #use the dvorak keyboard layout EndSection
This allows switching between the Dvorak and GB layouts by pressing both shift keys at once.
System-wide:
Simply make sure that /etc/default/console-setup
contains the following lines (replacing any options with the same names that might already exist):
XKBLAYOUT="us" XKBVARIANT="dvorak"
The change will take place after the next reboot. This is equivalent to choosing Dvorak as the default keyboard layout during installation, or running sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup
from the command line.