Lysquid / Erglace

A keyboard layout for French, English and programming

Home Page:https://ergol.org/erglace

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Erglace

A layout for French, English and programming. It is a fork of ErgEAU, initially adapted for compact keyboards compatibility. It uses many conventions of Ergo-L.

Features

  • a keyboard layout optimized for French and English
  • uses a dead key for the most frequent accented characters
  • uses the AltGr layer for programming symbols
  • fits on 30 keys for compact keyboards compatibility
  • trades easy access to common shortcuts for full optimization
  • lower SFB than most previous French layouts
  • few redirects, at the cost of few rolls

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Layout

base layout

The dead key ★ gives access to all accented letters you’ll need to write in proper French:

dead key layout

The AltGr layer, taken from Ergo-L, is fully dedicated to programming symbols:

altgr layout

Here are additional images with all the layers or for the ISO layout (1DK, AltGr, All).

Comparison to Ergo-L

Erglace abandonne l'accès facile au raccourcis usuels (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, ...) pour atteindre de meilleurs statistiques, en particulier un SFB plus bas, sous les 1%. Le SFB correspond aux enchaînements de deux caractères qui utilisent le même doigt, ce qui ralentit la vitesse de frappe.

L'autre différence est qu'Erglace cherche à minimiser les redirections, c'est-à-dire les enchaînements de trois caractères d'une même main avec un changement de direction, mouvement considéré comme inconfortable. Pour ce faire, toutes les voyelles se retrouvent d'un côté, comme en Bépo, ce qui favorise l'alternance des mains. Le désavantage est que la disposition a moins de roulements, c'est-à-dire des enchaînements de trois lettres d'une main dans une même direction, qui sont appréciables.

Install

Get the latest driver for your system from the release section. See the documentation of Kalamine to learn how to use it.

On Linux, you can use xkalamine to install it. Follow the steps from the Ergo-L repository using erglace.toml from the release section.

Make your own

You can easily modify the layout, which is a human-readable ASCII art. Then, use Kalamine to generate the drivers. Let's find the best layout!

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A keyboard layout for French, English and programming

https://ergol.org/erglace


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