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Anodynous / stenogotchi

Portable stenography using Plover and bluetooth keyboard emulation on a Raspberry Pi Zero W
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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Dvorak layout support #5

Closed Shmuma closed 2 years ago

Shmuma commented 3 years ago

Hi!

First of all, thanks a lot for really nice project. It looks like the only option for ipad + steno keyboard.

Second, it might be useful to add to the documentation small note about extra configuration might be needed if target device we are connecting to uses non-querty layout for the keyboard. Specifically, I faced this on my ipad pro with magic keyboard. I'm using dvorak layout there and when I connect stenogotchi + steno keyboard, everything works, except the input text was transliterated from querty to dvorak (which makes input totally wrong). If I switch ipad keyboard layout back to query and reconnect, everything works.

To fix this, I added the following line to the beginning of .xinitrc:

setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout gb -variant dvorak

This enforces X11 to use dvorak layout and plover is doing proper transliteration of emitted keycodes.

Anodynous commented 3 years ago

This is a good suggestion. The information will also be valuable to anyone using a different input language than English.