mirrorboard.xkb

// Mirrorboard Colemak one-hand keymapping

// This is a keymapping for occasional left-handed typing.
// Run it with 
//   xkbcomp mirrorboard.xkb $DISPLAY
// (optionally, 2>/dev/null -- it prints a lot of warnings)

xkb_keymap {
        xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
        xkb_types     { include "complete"      };
        xkb_compat    { include "complete"      };
        xkb_symbols   { include "pc+us(colemak)+inet(evdev)+compose(menu)"

// Here's the line to make left alt into the modifier key.
    key <LALT> { type[Group1] = "ONE_LEVEL", symbols[Group1] = [ ISO_Level3_Shift ] };

// To make caps the modifier
//    key <CAPS> { type[Group1] = "ONE_LEVEL", symbols[Group1] = [ ISO_Level3_Shift ] };

// caps is esc, alt-caps is return
    key <CAPS> { [ Escape, Escape, Return ] };

    key <TAB> { [ Tab, ISO_Left_Tab, BackSpace, BackSpace	] };

// If you want the keyboard to be exactly the same as your
// old one when not using caps, swap the order here -- you
// can decide if you want tilde or caps-tilde to be backspace.

// Keeps keyboard normal, caps-tilde is backspace:
    key <TLDE> {	[ grave,	asciitilde,	BackSpace	]	};
// Tilde is backspace:
//    key <TLDE> {	[ BackSpace,	asciitilde,	grave,	asciitilde	]	};

// The important alpha mappings.

    key <AD01> {	[	  q,	Q,	semicolon,	colon	]	};
    key <AD02> {	[	  w,	W,	y,	Y	]	};
    key <AD03> {	[	  f,	F,	u,	U	]	};
    key <AD04> {	[	  p,	P,	l,	L	]	};
    key <AD05> {	[	  g,	G,	j,	J	]	};
    key <AD06> {	[	  j,	J,	bracketleft,	braceleft	]	};
    key <AD07> {	[	  l,	L,	bracketright,	braceright	]	};
    key <AD08> {	[	  u,	U	]	};
    key <AD09> {	[	  y,	Y	]	};
    key <AD10> {	[	  semicolon,	colon	]	};
    key <AD11> {	[ bracketleft,	braceleft	]	};
    key <AD12> {	[ bracketright,	braceright	]	};

    key <AC01> {	[	  a,	A,	o,	O	]	};
    key <AC02> {	[	  r,	R,	i,	I	]	};
    key <AC03> {	[	  s,	S,	e,	E	]	};
    key <AC04> {	[	  t,	T,	n,	N	]	};
    key <AC05> {	[	  d,	D,	h,	H	]	};
    key <AC06> {	[	  h,	H,	apostrophe,	quotedbl	]	};
    key <AC07> {	[	  n,	N,	backslash,	bar	]	};
    key <AC08> {	[	  e,	E	]	};
    key <AC09> {	[	  i,	I	]	};
    key <AC10> {	[   o,	O	]	};
    key <AC11> {	[ apostrophe,	quotedbl	]	};
    key <AC12> {	[ backslash,	bar	]	};

    key <LSGT> {	[	  grave,	asciitilde,	Return	]	};
    key <AB01> {	[	  z,	Z,	slash,	question	]	};
    key <AB02> {	[	  x,	X,	period,	greater	]	};
    key <AB03> {	[	  c,	C,	comma,	less	]	};
    key <AB04> {	[	  v,	V,	m,	M	]	};
    key <AB05> {	[	  b,	B,	k,	K	]	};
    key <AB06> {	[	  k,	K	]	};
    key <AB07> {	[	  m,	M	]	};
    key <AB08> {	[     comma,	less	]	};
    key <AB09> {	[    period,	greater	]	};
    key <AB10> {	[     slash,	question	]	};


    key <AE01> {	[	  1,	exclam,	0,	parenleft	]	};
    key <AE02> {	[	  2,	at,		9,	parenright	]	};
    key <AE03> {	[	  3,	numbersign,	8,	asterisk	]	};
    key <AE04> {	[	  4,	dollar,	7,	ampersand	]	};
    key <AE05> {	[	  5,	percent,	6,	asciicircum	]	};
    key <AE06> {	[	  6,	asciicircum,	minus,	underscore	]	};
    key <AE07> {	[	  7,	ampersand, equal,	plus	]	};
    key <AE08> {	[	  8,	asterisk	]	};
    key <AE09> {	[	  9,	parenleft	]	};
    key <AE10> {	[	  0,	parenright	]	};
    key <AE11> {	[     minus,	underscore	]	};
    key <AE12> {	[     equal,	plus		]	};

  };
  xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc105)" };
};