Dvorak for Programmers with European Keys

This is the usual Dvorak for Programmers keyboard layout (initially made by Ronald Kaufmann) upgraded to include West-European characters as alternative symbols. The way they match the main letters was inspired by EurKEY layout (by Steffen Bruentjen). Other special characters distributed among the keys in a reasonable way (in my own way of understanding of what reasonable is, although feedback is always appreciated). Essential dead keys are present for common diactricts (marked red on the image below), but they are located on the most distant keys to reduce the chance of influence on hotkeys.

Manual installation on (Ubuntu) Linux

All the actions below are to be performed under #root

$ sudo su

• insert the contents of the us-dpe layout at the very end of /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us

• open /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.xml and find the us layout configuration starting with something like

<layout>
  <configItem>
    <name>us</name>

    <shortDescription>en</shortDescription>
    <description>English (US)</description>
    <languageList>
      <iso639Id>eng</iso639Id>
    </languageList>
  </configItem>

• in the beginning of the <variantList> below the layout header, insert the variant configuration for the new layout:

<variant>
  <configItem>
    <name>dpe</name>
    <description>English (Programmer Dvorak Eur. Keys)</description>
  </configItem>
</variant>

• delete xkb cache:

# rm /var/lib/xkb/*.xkm

or

# dpkg-reconfigure xkb-data

Now the new layout should be selectable in the system settings window as a variant of English layout

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