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dvorak
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tbocek / dvorak

dvorak

Wayland keyboard remapping with dvorak - make ctrl-c ctrl-c again :)

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2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
87GitHub stars
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Wayland keyboard remapping with dvorak - make ctrl-c ctrl-c again :)

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2023-05-19 20:03:08 UTC to 2023-08-07 06:50:33 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012023-05-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-05-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMay 152023-05-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-05-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-05-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-06-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-06-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-06-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-06-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-06-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-06-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-06-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-06-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-07-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJun 262023-07-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-07-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-07-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-07-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-07-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-07-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-07-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-07-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-07-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 7

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Aug 72023-08-07 00:00:00 UTC2023-08-14 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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> Also Control/Command C, X, and V are impossible to do with one hand while holding your mouse unless you remap keys or create macros. I took the, uh, hard way on this one: For every OS I have used in the last 20 years I have figured out how to write a program that intercepts keystrokes and rewrites them so that when I am holding ctrl or alt, my keyboard temporarily reverts to Qwerty. (I type Dvorak.) My current iteration involves using systemtap to, uh, monkey-patch the Linux kernel. Which works... surprisingly well? https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-to-monkey-patch-the-linux-ke... Code and older version here: https://github.com/kentonv/dvorak-qwerty Though these days I'm starting to think this guy's version based on /dev/input might be a better way to go: https://github.com/tbocek/dvorak (This even works on Chrome OS.) MacOS has this keyb
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oard layout built-in, but in multiple attempts I have never been able to get myself to like MacOS, so...
In Switching from QWERTY to Colemak and Back

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