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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Keyboard Megathread
 
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Fistful of Silence
Aug 22, 2003

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

Grimey Drawer

ChewyLSB posted:

However, when I got back to school, I realized something. On some programs, namely, command prompt and Cygwin, no matter what I do I can't change it to dvorak. I guess this makes sense, since I'm using the language in windows, and all that that probably does is re-interpret the signal as it's coming in, and Cygwin and the command prompt probably completely ignore that.

I was wondering if there was anything I could do (short of buying a hardware dvorak keyboard, which there don't seem to be many of to begin with) to fix this?
Command prompt will certainly remap to Dvorak. I used to do it in XP and I'm doing it now in Windows 7. Make sure you change the layout per-window; if it's not the default language, you have to set it for every new window (and once in a while you have to do it twice for reasons I don't fully understand).

I think you're screwed with Cygwin though. You'd need a keyboard hardwired for Dvorak for that to work.

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