How can I create a new keyboard layout for XFCE4?

Question

I have a hardware Dvorak keyboard that I would like to use to input texts in a non-Latin language. Naturally, the standard solution provided by XFCE4 does not work, as it translates the keys as if they are on a standard QWERTY layout. So I'm thinking that creating a custom layout would solve my problem. How can I do that?

Answer 1

If you haven't set the keyboard layout system-wide, you can specify it in Xfce 4 Settings Manager.

For Setting Keyboard Layout, do the following steps:

• Open Xfce 4 Settings Manager :

  Menu ⟹ Settings ⟹ Settings Manager

• Click on the Keyboard icon.

• Switch to the Layout tab.

• Uncheck Use system defaults

• Click the Add button and choose the appropriate keymap from the list.

• Select the active layout.

For editing shortcuts, do the following:

Xfce4 parameters ⟹ window manager settings ⟹ Keyboard tab

In addition, if you want to switch between different layouts, you can use and download its plugins.

N.B. If above solutions didn't help, I recommend you read this article, I haven't tried that myself, but I think it might help. On this step if you are faced with any problem, the solution provided here from askubuntu might help.