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Re: Keyboard in XyScript



Your Dvorak keyboard works fine so far both in text and keyboard shortcut modes—thank you. Any chance that the menus could contain keystroke options when available? You'd have to know what the loaded keyboard is I guess.

On Sat, Aug 29, 2026 at 8:55 AM Carl Distefano <cld@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Hi Fred,

> Commenting out sample.kbd replacing with xyscript-internal.kbd:
> MSG $KB reveals the path to the kbd file!!!

Glad that solved it.

> Let me know if I should post back to the list for this

Yes, it would be good for others to know that the issue was resolved.

> Another issue: For typing text my MacOS keyboard
> preference—Dvorak—is honored, not so invoking commands> keyboard. For example, to open a file, I'm required to press
> ctrl-(QWERTY)o, and so on.

I'm curious: how do you get the Dvorak layout? Do you modify the loadedt any intervention from you? The latter would indicate that macOS is *partially* overriding the KBD file, which would be REALLY odd.

In any event, I've tried my hand at a Dvorak layout, based on xyscript-internal.kbd (see attached). Try swapping it in and let me know how it works.

Best,
Carl