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Title: How to type using only one hand: keyboard mirroring |
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Author: Solène |
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Date: 12 December 2017 |
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Tags: unix |
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Description: |
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Hello |
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Today is a bit special because I'm writing with a mirror keyboard |
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layout. I use only half my keyboard to type all characters. To make |
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things harder, the layout is qwerty while I use azerty usually (I'm |
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used to qwerty but it doesn't help). |
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Here, "caps lock" is a modifier key that must be pressed to obtain |
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characters of the other side. As a mirror, one will find 'p' instead |
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of 'q' or 'h' instead of 'g' while pressing caps lock. |
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It's even possible to type backspace to delete characters or to |
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achieve a newline. All the punctuation isn't available throught this, |
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only '.<|¦>'",'. |
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While I type this I get a bit faster and it become more and more |
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easier. It's definitely worth if you can't use hands two. |
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This a been made possible by Randall Munroe. To enable it just |
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download the file [Here](http://xkcd.com/mirrorboard.xkb) and type |
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xkbcomp mirrorlayout.kbd $DISPLAY |
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backspace is use with tilde and return with space, using the modifier |
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of course. |
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I've spent approximately 15 minutes writing this, but the time spent |
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hasn't been linear, it's much more fluent now ! |
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[Mirrorboard: A one-handed keyboard layout for the lazy by Randall |
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Munroe] |
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(https://blog.xkcd.com/2007/08/14/mirrorboard-a-one-handed-keyboard-lay |
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out-for-the-lazy/) |
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