Noted Layout

For an introduction to the Noted layout, see the introduction page.

Noted is a keyboard layout that aims to allow efficient and comfortable typing both in German and English.

It has its roots in the Neo family of German alternate keyboard layouts and aims to improve upon them.

The design of the Noted layout was supported by a newly developed optimizer based on a mixed-language corpus (60% German, 40% English).

Layout on ISO Keyboards

Layout on Ergonomic Keyboards (crkbd or Cantor)

Troubleshooting

The layout file is not working under Debian Bookworm

On older distributions one has to use the pre-239 layout file. The newer layout file is only compatible with xkb 2.39 and later. This would be available from Debian Trixie onwards.

Pasting using Ctrl-V does not work under KDE

There is a global shortcut in KDE used by KDE Daemon to activate a systems monitor. It is bound to Ctrl-Esc. This interferes with the Ctrl-V paste shortcut. To disable the systems monitor shortcut, go to the shortcuts section in the KDE System Settings ("Kurzbefehle" in German), search for Esc and disable the corresponding shortcut. After that, KDE needs to be restarted, e.g., by logging out and in again or by restarting the system.

The layout cannot be activated using the systems settings

In order to be able to choose a lavout from the systems settings, the custom lavout file has to be used. For this, a required and complicated integration process has already been done. More information can be found here.

On some systems even using the custom file does not work. This was reported for Debian Bookworm and Trixie with KDE for some, but not all users. No solution is known yet.