im getting very annoyed to continualy having to change the keyboard layout at the login scrreeen and when i open a new application, is there a way to set the system to use colemak as default?
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permantly change keyboard layout to colemak on windows
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In the Text Services and Input Languages dialog, there's a dropdown for defvult input language. It's a bit harder to set the login screen's layout to Colemak. I used a solution I found on Stack overflow, which I can't remember the details of right now.
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First, add the new layout/language in your session, then log out. On the welcome screen, there should be a keyboard button where you can now select your layout. Make sure your account is a normal user and not a limited-rights one.
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Please change the subject line, to reflect your Windows version.
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As a side note, I use a password that is QWERTY/Colemak ambivalent. In other words, my password uses the common keys between QWERTY and Colemak, just in case I change it to QWERTY for my wife and then forget when I log out (or I have to tell someone my password for them to type it in). This may be a partial solution for you.
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jonhines said:
As a side note, I use a password that is QWERTY/Colemak ambivalent. In other words, my password uses the common keys between QWERTY and Colemak, just in case I change it to QWERTY for my wife and then forget when I log out (or I have to tell someone my password for them to type it in). This may be a partial solution for you.
I wouldn't do that -- it reduces the entropy per character of your password something terrible.
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jfmcbrayer said:
jonhines said:As a side note, I use a password that is QWERTY/Colemak ambivalent. In other words, my password uses the common keys between QWERTY and Colemak, just in case I change it to QWERTY for my wife and then forget when I log out (or I have to tell someone my password for them to type it in). This may be a partial solution for you.
I wouldn't do that -- it reduces the entropy per character of your password something terrible.
Could be worse - if you were a dvorak user, you would only have the A and M keys to create a password from!
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I think AAAMmmamMMaAmAAMMMaaMaA would be a good password.
Seriously, though. Does it really matter? It's not like I publish on my computer (or post on internet forums) that my password is as such. A password breaker would still have to attempt all letters. Or, am I wrong?
I actually have no idea.
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jfmcbrayer said:
jonhines said:As a side note, I use a password that is QWERTY/Colemak ambivalent [...]
I wouldn't do that -- it reduces the entropy per character of your password something terrible.
That'd only really matter if you did something stupid to disclose the information, like, oh, say,
post it on a forum somewhere...
But pfff, who'd do that, right? ;-)
No, in theory jonhines should be safe. I don't think many hackers would sniff around forums for password hints and then tune their password attacks accordingly. It's probably more about brute force bots anyway?
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Seems pretty silly to me. But hey, each to their own.
If you use dictionary words within the password, then the subset of possibilities is reduced dramatically. Having said that, I'm sure you could be inventive. Just hack up, combine words, and sprinkle in some other characters.
For Dvorak/Qwerty you get a,m lower and upper case and the number row and some funny characters.
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