Lesson 5 brings ‘p’, ‘l’ as well as all the home row. Current progress: Lvl 4, 134 cpm, 26 wpm, 88% accuracy; working on Lvl 5. As my family needs to use my home computer, I can’t just add Colemak to the xorg.conf like I have on my laptop, and I didn’t feel comfortable using xmodmap due to the weirdness I got on the work computer. So, as a KDE user, I made a little shell script that sits in ~/.kde/Autostart/setxkbmap.sh that switches the mappings for me when I log in: #!/bin/bash setxkbmap -v colemak && xset r 66 Linux is so cool :-P For the Gentoo UsersTo configure Colemak in the console, you need to do the following: Copy the file colemak-1.0/linux_console/colemak.iso15.kmap from the archive to /usr/share/keymaps/i386/colemak/colemak.map gzip it Edit /etc/conf.d/keymaps and set KEYMAP="colemak" Edit /etc/conf.d/consolefont and set CONSOLEFONT="lat9w-16" Restart the keymaps service # /etc/init.d/keymaps restart * Caching service dependencies …
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