• New "Colemak[eD]" AltGr mappings (lv3-4) putting dead keys on AltGr+symbol keys and reworking most other mappings
• Angle/Wide ergo modifications to improve wrist angles, hand spacing and right pinky stretch/load effort
• Curl(DH) ergo modifications to encourage natural finger curvature
• An "Extend" layer using Caps Lock as a modifier (lv5-8) for navigation/editing from the home position and more
• For several locales, a 'Unified Symbols' layout with only a few necessary changes from the standard Colemak[eD]; Also, a layout to 'Keep Local Symbols' like their default (QWERTY-type) counterparts for that locale
• Intuitive phonetic layouts for Cyrillic, Greek and Hebrew scripts
• Mirrored Colemak that allows one-handed typing (if I ever break an arm...)
• The 4 Tarmak transitional Colemak layouts for learning Colemak(-DH) in smaller steps if desired

Run the install and setxkb scripts with -h (or look inside them) for more help and info about their workings!

Learn about setxkb.sh "model locale variant" shortstring syntax in the BigBag. The default is "5cw us us": PC105(ISO) board with Curl(DH)AngleWide mods, US locale, Cmk-eD UniversalSymbols variant. To switch to, say, an ANSI board without ergo mods, that's 4n instead of 5cw. Look in the scripts.

NOTE: It may be necessary to select "Use system defaults" if you have changed anything in the OS GUI layout settings.

These files are updated to XKB-data v2.23.1-1ubuntu1, 2018. The xkb-data package is consistent enough between distros. I use the Debian xkb-data, sometimes with some Ubuntu updates. The .deb packages may be opened using dpkg -x or ar -xv (from binutils) on Linux, and for instance PeaZip on Windows.

See DREYMAR'S BigBag XKB topic on the Colemak Forums. There are plenty of explanations and further links in there.

Happy XKB hacking! DreymaR, 2020-11

• The Curl(DH) model implementation have to go as it may mess w/ QWERTY. Instead, I should use two Extend variants.
  • It also seems very hard for some newcomers to understand. So yes, I should have the Angle mod only and not CurlAngle models.
  • Also, matrix users want the V-D swap without an Angle mod! Another nail in the coffin for the Curl models.
  • Actually, should I make a NoModel CurlAngle layout for the model impaired? Vanilla, Curl(DH) and Curl(DH)Angle then.
  • Could just make a CurlAngle option!
  • But first, just the Curl with D-V swap built in. Just let the Extend Paste function be where it falls for now.
• Update to the latest xkb-data: https://ubuntu.pkgs.org/20.04/ubuntu-main-amd64/xkb-data_2.29-2_all.deb.html
• Find out how to change the rules component properly to allow compiling and eventually merging to the main repo?
• Migrate from ~/.bashrc to ~/.xprofile? The latter is more appropriate, but which setups source it and which ones don't?
• Could use an key code alias defined in keycodes/evdev (alias = ), instead of the code?

• 2020-11-05: Switched to the new DH = DHm standard (was DH = DHk)
• Changed the default layout for the setxkb.sh script to US (UniSym): In my experience, most uneducated users want US English.