There have been one or two previous KLC implementations of UK Colemak posted. I thought I had also made one, but looking in my github repo, it seems I only created a Wide Colemak one for some reason.

It seems that US Colemak is most "official", but I'm also too used to having pound sign on the 3 and don't want to give that up :P

I've uploaded a version of this that remaps Caps Lock to Backspace - see the original post above.

Everything related to keyboards on Linux just seems to work out of the box! At least on the beginner friendly distros with a lovely installer. :)

I don't know, I've found arch which certainly isn't beginner friendly to work even better out of the box, and it's much easier to keep up with it, I'm still on my almost 10 year old install of arch, it's been rolling it's way up to now, so I guess there isn't much left of the one that I installed so many years ago, It's pretty nice.

Arch is great for a personal system, it's really a great one if you have the time to do a bit of maintenance some times, I like to keep my system rather lean though, so no big parts like GNOME, KDE, XFCE and such, and maintaining just a windowmanager like i3 and some programs is way less likely to break.

Yeah, you are right about the drivers and stuff, never really had a problem with steam, but that might be luck on my side, it may also have something to do with steam actually only being coded against ubuntu/debian, and it's pretty cool that it works at all in arch :p

I also run on very vanilla and fairly old hardware, so that never was a problem for me, and I never print stuff, so that is also something that was not a problem for me.I just wish there was a windowmanager like i3 for windows as well, that wasn't terribly hacky, as now that we have the subsystem for linux I would be pretty comfortable even running windows 10, we're using it at work, and to be honest it's actually been pretty good, and the easier work of playing games and stuff is tempting, I'm just missing my i3 a lot while I am at work, it's just the paradigm that I'm really the most comfortable with, and it just gets a lot of things that I don't care about away. And it doesn't hurt that it's extremely light weight as well.

Thanks for this NottNott, been creating my own .klc files for the Tarmak ETROI steps (thanks DreymaR!) but it's comforting to know this should work better! Literally just moved the last few keys, going to take some getting used to

How can I avoid control + alt + letter keys producing international keys like ç and œ instead of acting as keyboard shortcuts with this?

Although AltGr is standard in the UK, it doesn't really give you any characters you need (by default). IIRC the standard Windows keymap only gives you accented vowels, which are only useful if you have the sudden urge to pretend your are French - which mainly only happens when you are re-enacting scenes from Holy Grail.

There is also the Euro symbol on AltGr-4, which I guess is a bit more useful.

It's why people should use AltGr either for Shift or a custom symbols layer instead!

Trying to get this approved at work; is there a github (or other opensource) repository of the Colemak UK source code we could build ourselves?

Nvm:

1. Install Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC)

2. Apply the CapsLock hack

3. Open MSLKC

4. File->Load existing keyboard and select the Colemak NottNott created

5. Project->Build Dll and Setup Package

That covers all needed?