Neo – an Ergonomic Keyboard Layout, optimized for the German Language
- Optimizations regarding Letter Frequency as well as Bi– and Trigrams given by the German Language (on Layer 1 and 2)
- Directly underneath your finger tips lie frequently used chars for Programming Languages (on Layer 3)
- Navigation Keys also lie directly under your finger tips! ←↑→↓ (on Layer 4)
- New chars can be entered, like: „ , ” , « , » , ∫ , √ , α , β , … (and massively more)
Learn Neo by viewing a printable Display showing the complete layout
English translations available:
Installation
Due to its rich layers, programs can behave strange (on upper layers). We know, that they are just overwhelmed ;)
ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTIES FOR ANYTHING!
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Windows
You'd also want to have a font like Deja Vu or Libertine to see all the fancy Neo–typeable chars!
- Try–out and Non–Administrators: Just run neo20.exe. To deactivate and switch back: Double-click on the Neo–Trayicon, or use [Shift]+[Pause]! (Peek at Neo: [CapsLock]+[F1])
- Administrator Priviledges: After System backup, look at kbdneo32.zip for a 32–, or at kbdneo64.zip for a 64–Bit Windows: Run reg_backup.bat (and get your registry keys for deinstalling Neo!), copy kbdneo2.dll to C:\Windows\system32\ per Windows Explorer(!), run kbdneo2_install.reg. Now there's Neo under the Control panel's keyboard configuration task as a variant after selecting German as keyboard language. For using cursors etc. you will also have to run kbdneo_ahk.exe. To deactivate and switch back: Use the keyboard layout icon, or press [Ctrl]+[Shift]. Deinstallation: Either only choose your old layout, or purge Neo away: After deselecting Neo as keyboard layout, run kbdneo2_uninstall.reg, and run the registry keys got at installation by reg_backup.bat
Linux
Please choose:
- Actual Distributions: [Keyboard Configuration]: Language: [germany], Variant: [neo]
- $xmodmap neo_de.xmodmap
- xkbmap (root privileges needed): To be written …
Mac OS–X
(Layers 4 and 6 are not accessible right now :|)Get neo.keylayout (if necessary, rename it to this name!) and neo.icns, move both in your directory at ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts, log out and in again, now you can select Neo at the normal Keyboard configuration panel as layout. Mod3 is at ⌥.
FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD
To be written …
Solaris
To be written …
C64
To be written …
Overview of every single Layer
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Layer 1:
Layer 2:
Layer 3:
Layer 4:
Layer 5:
Layer 6:
Troubleshooting, Tips&Tricks, Known Issues
To be written …
Neo Chat, Mailing list
Chat (IRC)
Feel free to ask questions here, there should be someone around who understands you (maybe there's nobody because of the different time zones). To enter our chat, just click here:
It's the IRC #neo channel at freenode.net.
Mailing list
[most posts in german!] Our mailing list address is as mentioned next:
It can be viewed by a web browser via this link: Browse Mailing List Archive.
Therefore, you can also use Gmane: Read Mailing list.
Other information available at Gmane: Overview of Mailing list.