On February 2, 2007, Tim wrote:
Take a typing class, you'll learn it much quicker than that. ;-) You can get alphabetically arranged keyboards, but you'd probably have to put up with one decorated in children's colours.
I could handle that! But I'd have to make a character map from scratch, I think, mapping the keysyms to the codes generated by the keypress, or something. I did one way back in redhat 5 days, for my laptop, which I bought in north america, so that I could write in european languages without headaches. It was a lot of work and I am not sure exactly how i did it anymore. I think the system has changed a bit since then, anyway.
I manage, not too badly, alternating from mouse to keyboard. The keys additional to a typewriter throw me, though. The F keys are too far away for touch typing, the insert, delete, home, end, page up/down keys are in different spots on different keyboards (I keep hitting print screen on some of them).
That used to get me, too. You better watch it, that you don't hit that sysrq key by mistake ;-) or your system will power down in an instant.