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title: centos and dvorak
date: 2010-04-02
keywords: [centos, dvorak, linux]
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because i can never remember, here's how to change a [centos] system
to use the [dvorak layout][dvorak] (as root):

`system-config-keyboard dvorak`

this probably works for [rhel] and [fedora] as well.

[centos]: http://www.centos.org/
[dvorak]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard
[rhel]: http://www.redhat.com/rhel/
[fedora]: http://fedoraproject.org/