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advorak
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custom keyboard in KDE

Fri Aug 19, 2016 6:29 pm
Is there a way to create a custom keyboard in KDE?
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Re: custom keyboard in KDE

Wed Aug 24, 2016 5:14 pm
There's unfortunately no graphical program to create keyboard layouts on Linux, except for some very old software that doesn't work properly anymore.

The only way for you to have a full custom keyboard is to manually edit configuration files. I've created a layout setup and saved it on /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/, and then added it to the list at /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.xml. Logging out and in again was enough for it to be available on the KDE input preferences.

To learn how those files work, take a look at the existing keyboards on /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/. You can find more info online by looking up "custom xkb keyboard" on search engines. They are complicated at first, but follow a logical structure based on the location of each key (row and column).


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