Background
Blowrak is a keyboard layout optimized for swedish programmers. It is
based on the dvorak keyboard layout, and the placement of åäö is
inspired from Liket's svorak layout. If you want to know why dvorak is
so much better than qwerty read this:
http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/procon.html.
Compared to dvorak "d" and "h" are
swapped, and so is "x" and "b". This makes h and b placed on the same
place as on qwerty. Also, "d" is a much more comman character in swedish
than "h". Another important thing is that the key left of "a" (often
caps lock) should be mapped as control. The placement of brackets and
braces is supposed to be optimised for programming (make sure you have a
alt-key for your right hand!).
Mac OSX
Download
blowrak.keylayout into your
"~Library/Keyboard Layouts".
Look
here for more information on how to remap capslock to control and kp-enter to alt.
X11
X11 runs on a wide varity of hardware, so here is a couple of
xmodmap-files for different keyboard-types.
blowrak-powerbook-linux.xmodmap
for Linux running on Apple Powerbooks. You will also need to
patch your
kernel to be able to use capslock as control.
blowrak.xmodmap for normal AT-keyboards. (updated 2005-02-03)
Windows
Download and install
blowrak.zip contributed
by Tobias Rundström. It does not do the capslock-control mapping, you
need
ctrl2cap.
