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Mac Style "Dvorak - Qwerty Command" keyboard mapping for Windows?


I would be interested in switching to Dvorak keyboard layout. The problem that everyone runs into is that common programming* keyboard shortcuts, such as:

  • Ctrl+C
  • Ctrl+V
  • Ctrl+Z

Will no longer be the keys on the bottom left of the keyboard, since the Dvorak layout has C, V and Z in different locations.

The Mac has solved this problem by having a keyboard layout called "Dvorak - Qwerty Command", where the keyboard is normally in Dvorak mode, but if you press a command key the mappings temporarily revert to Qwerty.

Does such a feature exist on Windows? It has been suggested that such a feat can be accomplished using the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator, but I won't pretend to understand all that.

In other words, Stackoverflow users, is this a problem that has already been solved?


* The joke being that the most common programming tasks are Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V.


Solution

  • This can help: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dvorakqwerty/