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Make a custom keyboard layout

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Tiffanys:
I guess some of you guys probably don't know you can change your keyboard layout to like US - International and a bunch of other languages and stuff, but there's probably even more of you that don't know that you can make your own...

I found something pretty neat not long ago... http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964665.aspx

You can make it exactly however you want! How awesome is that? I took the US - International and added some Korean letters and some macron letters to mine and removed the dead keys since they screwed with some things I needed them for. ^_^

Here's the layout I made:



You can get it here if you want it: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SG29S0X5

I like it. ^_^ Bushidō, whuhah!

Sosseres:
I have been considering learning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Colemak myself. Kind of annoying how long it takes, but most people that have made the transition says they like the new ones better. Only problem is that you will have all the hotkeys in the wrong place for games (which is why I havn't switched).

fohfoh:

--- Quote from: Sosseres on April 28, 2011, 04:11:08 PM ---I have been considering learning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Colemak myself. Kind of annoying how long it takes, but most people that have made the transition says they like the new ones better. Only problem is that you will have all the hotkeys in the wrong place for games (which is why I havn't switched).

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I've tried learning Dvorak. I definitely say it feels a hell of a lot more natural. The issue is hotkeys like ctrl C/V etc. that are second nature to us. Remapping for let's say CS is easy to do.

In a nutshell... Dvorak FEELS GOOD. I'm just not used to it at all.

kitamesume:
it'd be chaos!, theres a game i play that uses all. CTRL+[letter], ALT+[letter], Shift+[letter]. remapping even one key would mess the game entirely.

if it could use the NumPad then its a different story(while the numlock is off)

Tiffanys:
Well, you don't have to map both alt keys. My left alt is still a normal alt.

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