Intro

In this repo I keep the keyboard layout I use, based on dvorak and heavily modified.

The previous layouts, based on my initial generic dvorak-mirrorboard layout, are still available for sentimental reasons but are a mess.

My current dvorak-based keyboard layout

I described and documented it here: My custom keyboard layout with dvorak and LEDs - serhii.net

Features TL;DR:

• two layouts (latin/cyrillic) covering four languages (EN/DE/UA/RU)
• the Caps Lock LED as layout indicator (on = cyrillic)
• Caps Lock acting both as Ctrl and Escape
• things like arrow keys, BackSpace accessible at right hand resting position
• Useful Python characters ((){}[]<>=+-) moved closer to the main row
• UPDATE: Added numpad keys on level5! But not level5 itself. For now, -option 'lv5:ralt_switch_lock' works.
• UPDATE Level5 B/N (S-Latch-B/S-Latch-n; Dvorak B/N corresponds to Querty M/N keys!) contain the em-dash/— and en-dash/– respectively (TODO not yet reflected in graphic above)

Old Pchr8board / dvorak-mirrorboard layout

Originally this repo was about an attempt at a more generic layout. It was a Dvorak version of Mirrorboard by Randall Munroe. It lives in ./pchr8board_layout.

A better description can be found in the original post on my website.

How to use

Copy the file pchr8board to you systems' key definitions directory, in my case it was /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/. Then you can activate it with setxkbmap pchr8board or however you set your layouts.

What else does the repo contain?

• In my_layout/ I have the layouts I currently use:
  • ruua is a mixed Ukrainian/Russian layout with some changes.
  • v6.cpp is my main heavily edited dvorak layout
  • assets_v6 contains keyboard-layout-editor.com's png picture of that layout and the corresponding source .json
• In pchr8board_layout:
  • The last iteration of the mirrored layout I used incl. same assets
  • Older random ones in ./old