Re: [orca-list] keyboard layouts

[David CSercsics <aarg shaw ca>]

On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 04:55:09PM -0500, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> Hi Everyone
> Is there any way I can get Orca to respect a keyboard layout change?  
> E.g. if I change my layout to Dvorak, Orca still uses the US qwerty  
> layout for its commands, though it seems to respect the Dvorak layout  
> when in keyboard learn mode. However, I'm unable to get any of the  
> hotkeys to respect this change no matter how I attempt to set them.

What you want to do is change the keymap in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Not in the gnome preferences. I have this in 
mine for example:
        option "XkbVariant" "dvorak"

        This is in the keyboard section of the file.