Dvorak Keyboard Input

[GFreeman]

Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere.

I just want to ensure that I can change my keyboard input to Dvorak on the Pinebook Pro. This is fairly easy on most keyboards, but I wanted to make sure I could do it here before I purchase. It's an easy change on my System 76.

Just to clarify, I don't want to change the physical keys, just the input. I touch type, so I don't look at the keys anyway. They could be blank for all it matters to me.

Thanks for your help.

Yeah, you should be able to just fine.  I'm not a desktop Linux expert, but I think it might depend on your Window Manager of choice.

But KDE shows support for Dvorak, Colemak, etc.  Not sure if keyboard setting options are universal.

Something to note in your future possible (expensive) computer gear acquisitions: custom keyboards that support per-key customization via flashing the board's hardware (e.g., QMK or ZSA's Oryx/Wally software).  Then you never have to worry about OS/WM software again.  Downside is that it seems that I'm never done tinkering with the layout; guess that's an upside in that I can add a layer for specific software and tweak my Dvorak base with forward slash (/) under my left pinky on Planck/grid layout keyboard.  QMK supports up to 32 layers and I'm using 20 for various ways of computer navigation including mouse and arrow controls on homerow with left/right mirroring (e.g., I hold H down and use AOEU for arrows and U down for HTNS arrows).

Just thought I'd mention another option.

Hello,

Fantastic. Thank you so much for the reply and for the helpful suggestions. I really appreciate it.

Best,