Yes, i think all that would have been involved to degrees. Where funny critters us humans, are we not
I haven't experimented with keymaps before, but Markus' idea above seems interesting. And as i found the Dorvak keymaps installed on my system under,
/usr/share/keymaps/i386/dvorak
It's probably worth a try. If it's just a matter of remapping the keycodes, then it would seem any keyboard could be used.
Relabeling the keys would be trivial .
The mention of a Dorvak keyboard makes me think i might be missing something there though (grin). No problem ... I suppose an incremental remapping may be best. Just to hopefully avoid a total freeze. Dorvak does sound like a good idea, none the less.
jm

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