Quick Tut for Adding a Custom Keyboard Layout to Linux (XKB)
Shimin Guo mentioned the BEAKL keyboard layout in a recent article on Medium – I was unaware of this layout myself but more importantly Shimin highlighted the process by which to add a custom BEAKL layout to Linux’s XKB configuration – basically a quick tutorial for creating custom layouts 🙂
Discovered https://www.shenafu.com/code/keyboard/beakl/index.php. It addresses all the pain points I had when using dvorak, namely awkward locations for symbols when coding and for abbreviated Linux commands like ls. I strongly agree with its philosophy that strong fingers should do more work.
It’s a little tricky to install this layout in Linux, because it’s not pre-installed like dvorak. After some search I figured out what files to change to add the new layout.
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