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At the time of good old MS DOS, there was Keyrus keyboard |
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driver that could be configured in such a way that computer |
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nicely crackled when user typed in, say, Cyrillic keyboard |
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layout whereas produced no sound when user typed in |
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English keyboard layout, or vice versa. |
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The creator of Keyrus keyboard driver, a talented Ukrainian |
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programmer Dmitry Gurtyak, died on December 13th, 1998, |
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in the age of 27 years from brain cancer. |
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His Keyrus keyboard driver is still available from |
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http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Gurtyak/ |
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After more than 20 years of using Linux, I finally want |
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to know if I can see this feature implemented in Linux. |
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As far as I know, X-org server does not provide such a feature. |
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Will it at least be implemented in Wayland? |
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Can it be somehow implemented now in any WM or DE? |
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I am currently use Awesome WM and it is a real headache |
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to type in Vim some Cyrillic text in LaTeX! |
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Especially without any keyboard switch indicator. :) |
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P.S. The topic of this thread is a bit provocative, but it was |
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intended to only catch your attention, not to produce |
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a holy war against MS DOS. :) |