One thing I really need in any OS is support for the Dvorak keyboard layout.
I had pretty bad RSI a few years back and it flares up after any
length of time on a QWERTY layout.
I can’t change the Xserver config because other people use the laptop (besides, I couldn’t find it. Turns out there isn’t an xorg.conf on Solaris by default – it guesses your settings at X startup).
Solaris GNOME Java Desktop System doesn’t have an option to
change your keyboard layout. In any case, I was using CDE to save memory
(I’ll save my switch to dwm for another post).
xmodmap to the rescue
Here is my best effort -
load it with a straightforward ’xmodmap .dvorak.sun’ and it’ll last til you exit your
X session.
If you want every CDE login to use this keymapping, stick
# save the existing keymapping xmodmap -pke > $HOME/.qwerty.sun xmodmap $HOME/.dvorak.sun
at the end of $HOME/.dtprofile.
You can just ‘xmodmap $HOME/.qwerty.sun’ (or kill the X session) to revert to your old bindings.