Tim:
>> Take a typing class, you'll learn it much quicker than that. ;-) You
>> can get alphabetically arranged keyboards, but you'd probably have to
>> put up with one decorated in children's colours.
kwhiskers{:
> I could handle that! But I'd have to make a character map from scratch, I
> think, mapping the keysyms to the codes generated by the keypress, or
> something.
That'd be what you'd do to re-arrange an existing keyboard. These ones,
though, use a standard keymap. The electronics in the keyboard are
re-arranged to suit the re-arrangment of the key positions.
Normally, a key outputs a position code for a key (e.g. it's the first
on the left), and it doesn't matter what that key actually is, other
than there being expected keys in expected places. Those special
keyboards work the other way around, producing expected scan codes for
specific letters.
>> I manage, not too badly, alternating from mouse to keyboard. The keys
>> additional to a typewriter throw me, though. The F keys are too far
>> away for touch typing, the insert, delete, home, end, page up/down keys
>> are in different spots on different keyboards (I keep hitting print
>> screen on some of them).
> That used to get me, too. You better watch it, that you don't hit that sysrq
> key by mistake ;-) or your system will power down in an instant.
;-) It amuses me that the print screen / SysRq key is used backwards to
the legend printed on them. The print screen legend indicates that you
should be pressing shift with the key for that function.
Likewise for the pause/break key - the only thing I've seen pay
attention to that key is BIOS screen messages during boot (pausing when
you press the pause/break key).
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