On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 10:31:55AM -0500, Jing Su wrote:

The fancier kinesis (the one I have) supports two layouts. The keys are labelled with both. You can, on the fly, switch layouts without having to modify your locale settings. The Kinesis also supports keyboard macros and button remapping.

Yeah, the hardware remapping is nice, because you can use your preferred layout during OS installation, recovery, and BIOS duties (who types text into the bios? Not me! But maybe if you plug it into a Mac and need to mess around in OpenFirmware..).

My only gripe with Dvorak (and why it has been hard for me to switch) is that most programs have hotkeys that assume you're using Qwerty. This goes for OpenOffice and Emacs. The old combinations that were reasonable on qwerty are uncomfortable in Dvorak.

Any program worth its salt should allow you to remap the control keys anyway. :) -- taa /*eof*/ -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml