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layout: post
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title: "Dvorak and me"
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date: 2013-03-13 21:20:13
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tags: [linux]
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permalink: /blog/2013/3/13/dvorak-and-me
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published: true
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author:
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name: Gergely Polonkai
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email: gergely@polonkai.eu
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---
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A few months ago I have decided to switch to the Dvorak layout. After using
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QWERTY (well, QWERTZ, to be precise) for almost 17 years, it was a hard
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decision, but now I think it worthed the try. I started with the UK (Dvorak
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with UK punctuation) layout, and in about four weeks, I’ve almost reached my
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original typing speed. Today I have modified the Hungarian xkb definitions file
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to add the Hungarian accended letters like ű to the layout, so I don’t have to
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use dead keys anymore (which apparently turned out to be a problem, as the
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Linux version of Java doesn’t support dead keys at all).
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Best thing is, as I never learned proper 10-finger typing, but learned Dvorak
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that way, I can switch between QWERTY and Dvorak more or less painlessly (about
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10 minutes of confusion, so to say).
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Conclusion: I don’t know yet if this was actually a good decision, but it
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wasn’t bad, after all. But seeing people’s faces when they try to type on my
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machine totally worths it.
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