Hi there

I am new to the list so first an introduction. My name is Ed and I am interested in this list because I have one hand which leads to my first question for the list.

I have asked this question on the Linspire forum and have made some progress but still have not acheived the goal of setting up KDE and Linux to allow me to use the Dvorak left hand keyboard layout. 

Background: The Dvorak layout attempts to make typing easier by grouping the most commonly used keys together around the home key position so users fingers travel less. Seems trivial but try it and you may become a convert. This is even more important for users with one hand or who can use only one hand for typing, hence the left hand (and RH) layout, it is designed for someone with the use of one hand.

I am hoping someone can help. I am trying to setup linux with the Dvorak left hand keyboard layout. It is an easy thing to set the keyboard to the Dvorak layout through the control center, however there is no option to use the left handed version (or RH), the control center does offer some layout variants. 

I have been unable to find any help regarding this, Google doesn let me down too often. 

It is probably a simple matter for those who understand how to edit the keyboard layout files (maps?) and then configure the OS to use those edited layouts. This is beyond my current state of knowledge re Linux I admit. This can not be that difficult, Microsoft has had this implemented since 98 and a small easy tweak made it work in 95. 

After some help from the Linspire forum I found a keyboard map for DvorakLH in a .gz file: 

/usr/share/keymaps/i386/dvorak/dvorak-l.kmap.gz 

Now I need to be able to put this into the place where the Control Center can find it and offer it to me as a layout variant. It seems odd that it is there all the time and not availabe somewhere as an option. 

If anyone can help me to get the Control Center to see dvorak-l.kmap.gz as a Layout variant or perhaps have another solution I would be extremely happy if you could help.

If there is another list I should post this to, I would be grateful to know as well.

Cheers

Ed

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