Ok, some of you may have heard of the Dvorak keyboard. You can have it on your Eee PC to by switching the keyboard layout.

Thanks to iank at his webpage [[http://iank.org/eeepc/]] I am able to tell you how to do it.

In Easy Mode, open a terminal (ctrl+alt+t) and type:

setxkbmap dvorak

This would be a pain in the butt to do this every time you boot-up your Eee PC so lets change that. To make the change permenant, create the file /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80dvorak:

open a terminal (ctrl+alt+t) and type:

sudo kwrite /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80dvorak

  # hack to switch to dvorak on kdm startup
  
  setxkbmap dvorak
  # uncomment the following to bind capslock to backspace
  #xmodmap -e 'clear lock'
  #xmodmap -e 'keycode 66 = BackSpace'

Save the file and restart you system. Now to make the keyboard to look like the new layout you can move the keys or use keyboard label stickers. I would suggest the stickers and they can be gotten on E-bay or you could go to [[http://www.4keyboard.com]]

Here is what the layout looks like:

{{dvorak2.gif|}}
{{dvorak-keyboard.jpg|}}

You can also set right-handed and left-handed Dvorak layouts:

  setxkbmap us dvorak-r

  setxkbmap us dvorak-l