Emulating a one-handed keyboard?

[Peter Hutterer]

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 09:23:56AM +0200, Dirk Wallenstein wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 04:41:00PM +0200, Florian Echtler wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> > 
> > I came across this demo for a "mirrored" keyboard layout today:
> > http://www.half-qwerty.com/demo/
> > 
> > Would it be possible to create something like this as an X keymap? I
> > suppose the difficult part would be to use a different keymap when space
> > is held down...
> > 
> 
> The only thing currently not possible is to use space to both switch the
> layout and to produce a space character. That is related to canceling
> actions and something that certainly would appear in XKB2.

I've heard Godot has an implementation of XKB2 ;)

Cheers,
  Peter

> If you are willing to type a space with another key, than that is
> possible now already. For a test, just switch AltGr and the spacebar.