Post #2904097
2026-05-14 15:23 UTC
@typeswitch@gamedev.lgbt I'm German. I have made my own keyboard layout specifically to make typing ()[]{} easier. Programming was just getting too painful on my hands. Oh, and I switched ` with ´ so that I don't have to hold the Shift key whenever I want to write a code block in Markdown. I recently also learned that JavaScript uses ` as a delimiter for some strings too. Why was this symbol even added to ASCII instead of, say, the degree sign (°)?
Now, the next problem I have is that I have no idea how to easily get this custom keyboard layout on a Linux system. (It's super easy on Windows!) The only information I found is to edit some specific file that lists all keyboard layouts and hope that it doesn't get overwritten after an update. Not to mention that editing the file requires admin privileges, something I still don't understand how to easily deal with other than doing everything inside the console, at which point I would rather go outside.
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