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Poll: What keyboard layout do you use?

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Re: Poll: What keyboard layout do you use?

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I originally checked "QWERTY, not considering to switch", but after reading the thread I had to change my vote. Maybe I'll try a few-month experiment.

Question though:

How do you copy/paste in Dvorak? Does it really take two hands? Do you have to remap copy/paste to new keys if you want to maintain the one-handed ability?

Also, anyone know what default behavior is for remote desktop? Do I need to change my keyboard settings on the remote machine or only the local machine? (I could TIAS tomorrow at work, but I'm on my linux laptop with no access to a machine to remote into.)

Re: Poll: What keyboard layout do you use?

#42

I originally checked "QWERTY, not considering to switch", but after reading the thread I had to change my vote. Maybe I'll try a few-month experiment. Question though: How do you copy/paste in Dvorak? Does it really take two hands? Do you have to remap copy/paste to new keys if you want to maintain the one-handed ability? Also, anyone know what default behavior is for remote desktop? Do I need to change my keyboard s…

Reading up on wikipedia, it seems like MacOS has an option called "Dvorak – Qwerty ⌘" which allows you to type in Dvorak but use your old familiar ⌘-C ⌘-V etc. for copy/paste. Anyone know if Windows has a similar option?
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