Welcome back! ^_^

Working at Oslo University Hospital, I'm not allowed to use any personal layout installs either. I eventually solved that by using a QUICKIE device; it even gives me Extend which is great. What it can't do is sort out shift and AltGr mappings which is a bit unfortunate but I'll live with that. The downside is that it costs a little, but then you can take it with you wherever you go if you want to. So I have one in my backpack and one at work.

I think Colemak[eD]-No is good enough for writing both Norwegian and German beside English, unless you write a ton of German. I at least find the äüö letters very easy due to the good placement of the AltGr+; deadkey combo, and ß is well placed too.

Thank you, finally I'm home again :)

Ullevåll that is or? I was really enjoying my time at the University in Oslo :) And when I was in HMKG we were playing there :) It was a lot of fun.

I'll have to look into that then :) I tend to write mainly English (systems administrator) But most of my eMail correspondence is in German, sadly Norwegian is the language that I write the least, but now and then I do write with my siblings or someone from the old country.

The funny thing is it wasn't even a security issue, I was working on linux at the time and it has colemak built in as standard... It's just that he couldn't come over and type on my keyboard without me switching it over that was irking him I think. The other is that I am a systems administrator, and I don't see any security problems with using PKL either, it's a solid piece of software, and I don't see it doing anything fishy coming out to the net or something. So I do lean more towards him just being a douche :p

Hehe a mental institution is still the first thing that I think about when I hear Gaustad :p so it's not gone from memory yet even for a "farmer from Hadeland" :p

I've been looking through your repo, but I haven't managed to find the no layout yet, maybe I'm just not seeing it because my eyes are in the way :p I'll have to take some time to look for it later. I'm writing German with the standard layout for now, it works with a bit of practice but still isn't completely practical with the AltGr+y ; keys ;) And since I'm interested in your mods as well it would be something good for me to go for, you're using angle-dh-curl-ext yourself right? I guess it would be some work to get used to the four moved keys again, but not that bad really and I mean when one get's used to a better keyboard, then why not to the best that  one can at once :p

No luckily not, and I've come to the habit of pushing alt-altgr on my keyboard everytime someone looks like they're coming close to write, and it works ;) He was just a strange person in normal, claiming I was looking at my keyboard for the keys, and that it didn't make any sense to write with a keyboard layout that wasn't printed on them :p

Yeah I've been looking into a programmable mechanical keyboard as well, as they are really good to write on, but we'll see :p I've also been looking at learning plover (open source stenography) for fun some time and then an "NKRO" is needed, the keyboards that I have are no good for that.

Yeah I know, there are so many people that are really short sighted, but then again I look at all the strange things that the workers here are doing on their computers and I kind of see the other side as well, (Seriously is there anything people don't do in excel, everything they either force into it, or they want to install a plugin to make it do it :p) But then again I'm here to help people so if anyone here wants PKL they'll get it ;)

Er det bare meg eller egner colemak seg nesten enda bedre til norsk enn til engelsk, kansje det er fordi norsk staves mer regulært, men jeg har på følelsen at det er bedre ruller og vekselvirkninger på norsken enn på engelsken.

Bah, I'm so used to writing markdown that I didn't realize that it wasn't supported on the forum :/ Fixed it now though.

Yeah, no, you're right there I didn't quite think of that, maybe I'm just fooling myself because I don't have to think as much in Norwegian as in English ;p

I'm already juggling a lot of things around, so I'm not sure if I care that something more is getting changed around, but yeah, that seems like it would be really worth the time yeah.

Ah that's why I couldn't find it it, for some reason I was thinking that was SL for a slovak version of colemak :p

Wow, that's pretty impressive :) Plover is really cool, it seems to be a lot of work getting used to it, but since I do also handwrite gregg steno I was thinking it would be cool to do it ar well ;) And wow, the speeds that some of the people achieve with that thing is really impressive.

I've seen others that swear to the "reverse lean", so you may be on to something there. Myself, I'm used to typing on flat boards now so that's comfy enough for me, but at the very least I wouldn't use those legs to angle the board towards me!

It's also a matter of sitting and typing positions. The main issue is keeping the wrists straight! If your keyboard is too high so that your arms angle upwards, then tilting the keyboard away will help a lot. But if you can lean your elbows on the desk (which I like to do when I'm relaxed) and maybe additionally float your hands a little (which I don't generally do when I'm relaxed...) then your wrists will have no vertical flexion even without that keyboard tilting.

So there are several factors to this, but I think you're right in general.

For the lateral wrist angle, I use the Angle and Wide ergo mods to avoid ulnar deviation.

When I was trying it out after having read it, I was really feeling strange, I mean I always thought I did myself a service having those feet stretched. I have a handrest that is raised so I was just taking the feet down, and putting the keyboard up there, and man it feels completely different to write on, it's so much easier to hit the right keys, the stretches are so much easier, and my hands get less tired. I also went 5 wpm faster, without any effort on my part :s

I think a cartesian matrix is a bad idea. That's nothing like the true shape of the hand. I'd rather have a stagger that goes the right way for both hands!

Bar the really hand-shaped typing surfaces of course. Not sure how convenient they'd be on a laptop though. ;-)

I've used the angle-wide mode for some time, but now it is in the past. It makes way more sense than the classic staggered model though.
I agree that matrix is not quite good idea, if that matrix is in one piece. Two halves of matrix could be rotated (and tilted) the way it is convenient for hands. Right now I'm mostly using that variant with Let's Split keyboard. Comparing it to columnar ErgoDox, for me personally the columnar stagger the ErgoDox has is not quite convenient, it assumes some predefined proportion of length of fingers, especially pinkies related to other fingers, which is different for different people. What is good about 40% keyboards is their portability. I always carry it with me now in a small stethoscope case. It is way more portable than a regular keyboard or, say, Ergodox or Kinesis keyboards.

Yeah, I did :p I'm just so used to writing setxkb[tab] us colemak that I messed it up :P

Ah okay, I have to dive into that again then ;) Of course it was just some small thing, or else more people would have had problems with it :p
I went in and changed the us keys for the Norwegian ones, and now I have the Norwegian letters in the middle of the keyoard. It doesn't really match up with the picture anymore, but it works, I see it takes a bit getting used to some of the keys that moved around, but it makes a bit more sense to me now. m and h seems to be the hardest ones.

Thank you, I'll look into that, I'll just alias that command to asdf, and the normal german keyboard to arst then like I've had it with colemak before, Since my wife still writes with qwertz I have to return the keyboard to qwertz every time I leave the computer so that she doesn't get completely confused :p

Yeah, I don't really remember where I picked it up, but I find it pretty genious :p What's even easier is just to configure openbox to have a shortcut key that moves, like win-z for qwertz and win-y for colemak. But I'll have to get into that xml mess to do it, and I can't get my wife convinced that i3wm is a good thing :P

Yeah, I'll keep the -s flag in mind, currently at work, so I'll check when I get back ;)

Absolute path, I guess I'll just 777 that bastard and put it in /bin, so that I don't have to worry too much ;) I guess you have a shebang in there already (#!/usr/bin/sh) so that I can just snip the .sh and use the command like a normal one after stuffing it in bin. (I guess I'm trusting you too much :p, but that's just my home system)

Well I'm using arch linux, so sh is just a symlink to bash, but on other systems yes it would probably not be the best idea. I thought so because of the way you were invoking your example ;)

Yeah, would probably be a good idea anyway, I don't know much about the keyboard subsystem yet ;) Maybe I'll be inspired and daring enough to do something with it :p

I'm slowly working on the curl mod still, it seems to mess quite a lot with my head, but I really feel like it is more comfortable, so I just have to get used to it. At least I now have the bindings on both my windows and linux machines, so I just have to get out of this 27 WPM speed hole that I find myself in.