Well, in that case I guess you could've just commented out those keys altogether? But it's nice that you got it to work, grats with that!

Hi! What you have there is an ANSI-CurlAngle(Z)Wide(/) Colemak, but with SteveP's preferred placement of 6 vs =. In my opinion using the right hand on the 6 key is wrong for standard row-staggered boards since the distance from the home position is greater for the right hand and the physical middle of the board is between the 6 and 7 keys so to speak. So I haven't implemented the 6-to-the-right Wide option everywhere.

$> ./setxkb.sh 4cw

This command activates my version of ANSI-CAW[eD]. See the setxkb help text to make it permanent by adding a line to your ~/.bashrc file. If you want the swapped 6 and = keys you may edit the symbols/colemak file to achieve this by swapping the key codes for those keys (it'll affect all Colemak[eD] layouts but that may be okay?). Look around in there and see if you can figure out how.

Glad you enjoy it! Unfortunately, I'm not sure about the repeat thing, it puzzles me as well. I think it may be about key types but that's as far as I got. Yeah, that mask is certainly interesting.

Really not sure why my files should bork only F1–F7 for you either. That makes no sense to me. Sorry.

Hey there Dreymar, thanks again for this great tool, been using it for long time already but on Windows. I switched to Linux and I wanted to use it differently here. My config right now is:

./setxkb.sh 5c us us

and I want to use the extend key on the LAlt key place, and have the LAlt mapped to CapsLock. Before applying your script, I successfully swap the behaviour of those keys via editing /usr/share/X11/xkb/keycodes/evdev , but after using the install-dreymar-xmod.sh script that no longer works, so I'm a bit stucked over here...  Please help me, what files do I need to manually edit in order to do that, and what else do I have to do to make this changes permanently for my user? Cheers! Thank you so much again.

Hey again Dreymar, thanks for your reply. Yes, I have an ISO Latin American Keyboard, so 105 fits me. I was using your script without any hassle yesterday, however when I went to turn on my computer, Linux wont boot, it stays frozen after loading modules (I'm not sure exactly what it does when boots up), says:

bluetooth hci0 failed to send firmware data (-110)

I tried to find solutions on the internet but couldn't find anything similar. I don't use bluetooth but it wasn't giving me errors either. This was after applying your scripts, I can confirm this behaviour because I have used ElementaryOS and Ubuntu before (now I'm using Pop! OS) and got the same errors after rebooting the system. I thought this was because of my battery draining down to zero after having it suspended, but today I just confirmed that is this script that is making my laptop not to boot.

Do you have any idea what could be causing this issue? I really want to use the extend key and colemak itself, but I dont want to use Windows again.

PS: I wrote you on Discord.

UPDATE: After reinstalling Pop! OS and successfully logging in, I tried and run install-dreymar-xmod.sh -ox, set the layout to 5c us us, rebooted and again getting the same error. Meanwhile I found an xmodmap that maps keys to the desired but no Extend super powers for me. I'd really appreciate your help.

Thank you very much for your wonderful work. How can I change the layout toggle key from capslock to space like touchcursor under Windows, and use capslock for backspace? Thank you for your time.

Thank you. It's mostly a habit thing from original colemak. Plus, with capslock mapped to backspace, I can concentrate a lot of editing shortcuts to my left hand area on the keyboard. And my right hand would use the mouse. Also, It's very cold where I live so having only one hand out is ideal sometimes. :)

My extend key was "space down" in Windows, and space would be "space down and then up without key presses in between". Touchcursor is a program in Windows that does this for me.

Could you please tell me more on how to change capslock to backspace with your xkb files? I couldn't figure out which files to edit. Thank you.

I'll definitely try this the next time I work with a physical Linux machine. Thank you so much for taking the time to educate me. You cannot believe how grateful I am. Thank you.

Look in my /symbols/extend file, there are a lot of working bindings. Of course, I'd just recommend using Extend Copy/Paste...  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Would you mind helping me set up this thing? I've fiddled with it around for a bit, but I can't seem to make this work the way i want to =(

I've downloaded your script and installed it ( -ox ), i think it is currently properly installed (because i can use the setxkbmap to change my layouts to the new colemak you have setup)

idk if it matters or not, but i use fcitx to alternate between "System Keyboard" and Japanese (Mozc)

EDIT:
i managed to fix my issues i think, it was related to fcitx i had to change the default option there too!
but minor side note, i can't seem to type space if i ever switch to qwerty again (which i do for gaming, but atm i can't jump at all in some games :D)

also... did i understand DH mod wrongly? my bottom row is currently zxcvd instead of zxcdv (accordingly to the github page)

thanks and sorry for bothering

How would I go about using xsetkbmap to change my layout to Colemak DH without the angle mod? I am using an ANSI keyboard and I'm used to the columns as they are (there's no extra keys by the right shift also). I can set the keymap to Colemak but I can't seem to get the dh swap to work. I'm using Arch Linux with i3 and I installed the package using the AUR. Also, I have a keyboard running QMK using Colemak through firmware mapping and might end up using it on my laptop occasionally. Is there a way to set a map only for the internal keyboard in case I use an external keyboard on it?

The angle mod is integral to Colemak DH. When you say you are used to the columns as they are, does that mean you type C with your middle finger currently? Or perhaps your are doing the 'angle cheat' method and using your index finger. Bear in mind Colemak (and Qwerty) is designed assuming middle finger C.

If you are wedded to keeping ZXCVB absolutely unchanged, then I'd recommend applying Colemak-DH on the right hand only, and then the D>P>G rotation on the left hand. That solution is not quite as good but it offers some improvement for people who are dead against the angle mod.