Une disposition de clavier ergonomique optimisée pour le français, l’anglais et le code.
- Disposition optimisée pour le français et l’anglais;
- Couche AltGr optionnelle, optimisée pour l’enchaînement des symboles de programmation;
- Conservation des raccourcis usuels : Ctrl-{Q,A,S,Z,X,V} (Ctrl-C est décalé, mais reste faisable d’une main);
- Support de tous les caractères spéciaux utilisés en français (diacritiques, majuscules accentuées, lettres entrelacées, symboles de ponctuation…);
- Chiffres en accès direct.
A Colemak-style layout for French-speaking users.
- a Colemak-style keyboard layout optimized for French and English;
- most common keyboard shortcuts are preserved (like in Colemak);
- use a dead key for the most frequent accented characters;
- use the AltGr layer for programming symbols.
This layout claims to be better than Bépo for French, better than Dvorak for English and better than Qwerty for programming. Check the stats !
The dead ★ key gives access to all acute accents, grave accents, cedillas, digraphs and quote signs you’ll need to write in proper French:
… and the AltGr layer is fully dedicated to programming symbols.
The default layout allows to write in English, French, German and Esperanto easily.
More information on the website (in French).
Kalamine is available on Debian Unstable. It is automatically installed
via the xkb-data
package.
You’ll need the latest version of Kalamine to build your own layout. We highly recommend using pipx, once you have it installed (by following their guide), you can just run the following command:
pipx install kalamine
Download the layouts/ergol.toml file in this repo and build the layout :
kalamine build ergol.toml
You’ll get a dist
folder containing all the drivers.
Then, to install Ergo‑L, follow the install section of Kalamine’s repo, and you should be good to go !
xkalamine
is a linux‑specific tool (shipped with kalamine
) to easily
install keyboard layouts on Linux. You can drop sudo
if you use wayland, but
it’s required on Xorg.
sudo xkalamine install ergol.toml # Install the layout
Then switch to Ergo‑L using the following command:
setxkbmap fr -variant ergol # Switch your keyboard layout to ergol
Troubleshooting with ubuntu / wayland
There is a weird issue where Ergo-L works fine with some applications
(phpstorm, gnome,...) but not on others (libreoffice, terminator). The deadkey
remain for two chars instead of only one. (ex: a[deadkey]sen
should display
aéen
but it displays aéèn
instead.).
This issue is solved by adding at the end of /etc/environment
the following lines:
INPUT_METHOD=ibus
GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
QT_IM_MODULE=ibus
XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus
If you wish to modify the layout, the layouts/*.{toml,yaml}
are human-readable
ASCII arts of the final layout. You can easily edit them, then run make
(or
make watch
) at the root of the repo to generate the .json
files used to
benchmark layouts on the stats page.
This repo contains all of the code for the Ergo‑L website, so you can run the page locally to try your prototypes !
The different corpora can be found in corpus/
, mainly fr.txt
and
en.txt
which can be edited to change the type of text used (for instance if
you don’t write like translators of Miguel de Cervantes, or if you want to test
with your own emails).
If you have multiple source files, you can thus merge them using the
merge.py
script, for instance:
python3 merge.py file-fr‑1.txt … file-fr-n.txt > fr.txt
Once this is done, the statistics file can be generated using the
chardict.py
script. Note that for this step, you don’t
want to have parasitic .txt
files in the corpus
directory, or their stats
will be generated as well.
python3 chardict.py
For the sake of completeness, we add that specifying a single file after the
command generates the json
stat file for this specific corpus.
Hugo can be used to serve the site, it automatically
watches and live-reload the pages upon file changes, however you still need to
have make watch
running to ensure that the .json
files are generated upon
modifying human-friendly layouts in layouts/*.{to,ya}ml
.
You can thus run your local instance of the Ergo‑L website either by running
hugo server
in the www/
directory, or via:
hugo server --source www/
By default, the server will run on port 1313
: http://localhost:1313/
The stats page is now accessible on http://localhost:1313/stats/#/ergol/ol60/fr!
Note: This solution supports live-reload for most parts. While it’s not a problem while editing the content, some stats are not fully refreshed with live-reload. You may have to manually refresh the stats page after editing a layout or a corpus to have the correct version of them.