hmmm I type in Dvorak as well and haven't had any problems with speakup's laptop layout. I have the command "loadkeys dvorak" in my rc.local script. Nick Stockton ----- Original Message ----- From: "David CSercsics" <aarg@xxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 4:57 PM Subject: Re: Speakup laptop layout > On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 01:24:02PM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote: >> Hi David, >> If I may ask as a matter of interest, why do you want to get rid of >> that layout? I've just never had the good fortune to use Speakup with a >> full numeric keypad, and that layout has saved me on numerous occasions. > > Because I type in Dvorak and the layout was not designed for my keymap. > I hate laptop keyboards so I try to plug in an external one when i > can. I also like the way that my laptop does numpad emulation when I > use its keyboard anyway. I'd also like to not have to press shift with > the capslock key to get it to activate because that is not standard PC > keyboard behaviour. I don't use that key hardly at all but when I do > I'd like it to work properly. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus > signature database 3811 (20090129) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > >