A way to specify what layout your chordes are using

[Kommynct]

Discussed in #1328

^{Originally posted by Kommynct November 4, 2024}
I currently have an actual dvorak keyboard, but sometimes use other keyboards, I have two dedicated config files for that dvorak keyboard and all other keyboards, but want to use the same list of chordes

currently, the chordes on the qwerty keyboard use the qwerty layout, and the chordes on the dvorak keyboard use the dvorak layout, i'd like a way to merge these two into one, that way i don't have to maintain two separate lists of chords, any ideas?

config files here:

https://gitlab.com/that1communist/dotfiles/-/blob/master/etc/nixos/main.kbd
https://gitlab.com/that1communist/dotfiles/-/blob/master/etc/nixos/ergodox.kbd
https://gitlab.com/that1communist/dotfiles/-/blob/master/etc/nixos/chords.kbd

It'd be nice if there was a defcfg option that specifies what layout you're using the chordes in, that way you could have many files like this, and many different keyboards with different layouts that just work automatically.

[jtroo]

You can probably use deflocalkeys for this to redefine defsrc symbols.

[Kommynct]

Can you give me a simple example? I'm not really understanding how that applies here

[jtroo]

Thinking about it some more you can't actually redefine the defsrc symbols, because then outputs would be broken.

But you can redefine new input symbols that are defined differently for qwerty and dvorak. Then define everything according to the new inputs.

Example for dvorak left hand home row: simulator.

(defsrc)
(deflocalkeys-linux
  aa 30
  ss 24
  dd 18
  ff 22
)
(deflayermap (base)
  aa a
  ss o
  dd e
  ff u
)

Example for qwerty left hand home row: simulator

(defsrc)
(deflocalkeys-linux
  aa 30
  ss 31
  dd 32
  ff 33
)
(deflayermap (base)
  aa a
  ss o
  dd e
  ff u
)