[drop_cap]W[/drop_cap]orking on non-US keyboards can be challenging when common tools and specs expects standard layouts. For example, I use a German keyboard which has a bunch of “fun” quirks: Y and Z are swapped @ is typed with AltGr (right Alt) + Q double quotes (") are on Shift + 2 forward slash (/) on […]
I simply made my own keyboard layout. Accent grave is just a single press for me, altgr+accent is the “normal” combining one. Also changed äö to () and shift+äö to [].
It’s not that hard, it’s just a markup file I had to copy+modify and put in some folder.
Legit possible solution.
But I normally omit changing the behaviour of the standard keyboard as it will bite me the moment that I am not on my own computer.
Only exception:
I use a similar approach to disable the Tab-Key (and in one case, on a machine with a stripped down keyboard missing the “Pos1” and “End” keys, use Tab and Shift-Tab to emulate these).
Meh, how often do you really do some serious work where you’re not on your own hardware? Depends on your job I guess, if you’re company tech support and walk around to people’s PCs the whole time, but if you’re a programmer or similar, when are you really not going to do your work on your PC?
It’s not like you can’t work with a default layout afterwards, you’re just going to be a bit slower on one. It really didn’t happen very often for me in years of working.