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This is an adaption of the German NEO layout for the Truly Ergonomic Computer Keyboard (TECK), using the X Keyboard Extension (XKB, see next section).

Activate the layout with setxkbmap de neo -option truly:neo. DIP switch 1 of the keyboard must be off.

Additionally, the left space key can act as Tab with setxkbmap de neo -option truly:neo,truly:leftspace_tab. DIP switch 3 of the keyboard must be off. This option can also be used with other (non-NEO) layouts.

Details can be found in the DESIGN.md file (in German).

The X Keyboard Extension essentially replaces the core protocol definition of keyboard. The extension makes possible to clearly and explicitly specify most aspects of keyboard behaviour on per-key basis and to more closely track the logical and physical state of the keyboard. It also includes a number of keyboard controls designed to make keyboards more accessible to people with physical impairments.

There are five types of components in the server database corresponding to five xkb symbolic names: symbols, geometry, keycodes, compat and types which determine the keyboard behaviour. These five components can combined together into a resulting keyboard mapping using the 'rules' component.

The complete specification can be found on http://xfree86.org/current/XKBproto.pdf

For XKB configuration information see docs/README.config file.

For information how to further enhance XKB configuration see docs/README.enhancing file.

For information how to replace existing XKB configuration database with XKeyboardConfig see docs/HOWTO.transition file.

Contribution guidelines are described at http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig/Rules