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You know what – church was alright! :) The music was good, the people were friendly-but-not-too-pushy. Most of them seem to be from South Africa, heh! :) I might talk a little more about the church experience later … but for now …

My 'reward' for going to church, hahaha!

I love it!! I am sitting in the living room right now, connected to the wireless network, surfing the internet. It's easy to type on, especially now i switched the keyboard layout to Dvorak. I'm glad i thought to buy a little mouse because i don't get on too well with trackpads. I have enabled the XFCE advanced settings, downloaded Firefox 3, installed the Gimp … all is very, very good! :)

It is so cool how i can just take the SD card out of the camera, slot it into the Acer and it reads the pictures straight away, no fuss. Delightful! :)

It has a web cam, which may mean i can do Skype video calls. That would be cool! As a machine it works very nicely, makes a very faint hum, the screen is bright and clear, and the keyboard is perfectly responsive. The Linpus Linux it comes with is perfectly useable. I might be tempted to switch to Ubuntu, but i know this is designed to be fast and energy efficient, so i think i'll stick with it for now. I managed to get rid of the XP-imitation title bar buttons, so i'm happy! :)

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aimee

ABSDoug, do you want to email me what you see in that file, and i'll try to work out what needs to be changed?.

ABSDoug

"InputDevice" ?

aimee

You will see a section for InputDevice. Most of it will be already there. You just need to tweak it to match your preferences.

ABSDoug

As this will be the 1st time I'm using Linpus, could you tell me how & where I make this entry? I'm a quick learn so you won't be wasting your time ;-)

aimee
Ha, yeah, tricky one. It isn't available in the keyboard layouts so i had to
vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf

and set up the following InputDevice settings:
```
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "gb,us(euro)"
        Option      "XkbVariant" "dvorak,"
        Option      "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
```
I made it switch between Dvorak and Qwerty with an alt-shift. By the way, these settings might be particular to UK Dvorak ... i can't quite remember how it all works to be honest.

absdoug

Could you tell me how you enabled Dvorak?