Nowerty

instructions.txt

Nowerty (for Linux)

This layout variant is based on a standard US layout, but has æøå available by pressing Alt Gr (in the same position as on a standard no layout).

Add the contents of nowerty.txt to the end of the file /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/no.
Then look up the following section in the file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.xml:

  <layout>
      <configItem>
        <name>no</name>
        <shortDescription>no</shortDescription>
        <description>Norwegian</description>
        <languageList>
          <iso639Id>nor</iso639Id>
          <iso639Id>nob</iso639Id>
          <iso639Id>nno</iso639Id>
        </languageList>
      </configItem>
      <variantList>

Add the following variant block after the line <variantList>:

        <variant>
          <configItem>
            <name>nowerty</name>
            <description>Nowerty</description>
          </configItem>
        </variant>

Finally, after the line "! variant" in the file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.lst add the following line:
  nowerty          no: Nowerty

Now Nowerty should show up as one of the alternative keyboard layout variants for Norwegian.

nowerty.txt

//Nowerty, a fork of Swerty by Johan E. Gustafsson
partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "nowerty" {

    name[Group1]="Norway - Nowerty";

    key <TLDE>  { [     grave,  asciitilde, section, onehalf ]  };
    key <AE01>  { [         1,     exclam                    ]  };
    key <AE02>  { [         2,         at,  quotedbl         ]  };
    key <AE03>  { [         3, numbersign,  sterling         ]  };
    key <AE04>  { [         4,     dollar,  currency         ]  };
    key <AE05>  { [         5,    percent,  EuroSign         ]  };
    key <AE06>  { [         6, asciicircum, dead_circumflex  ]  };
    key <AE07>  { [         7,  ampersand,  braceleft        ]  };
    key <AE08>  { [         8,   asterisk,  bracketleft      ]  };
    key <AE09>  { [         9,  parenleft,  bracketright     ]  };
    key <AE10>  { [         0, parenright,  braceright       ]  };
    key <AE11>  { [     minus, underscore,  dead_diaeresis,  dead_circumflex ]  };
    key <AE12>  { [     equal,       plus,  dead_tilde       ]  };

    key <AD01>  { [         q,          Q                    ]  };
    key <AD02>  { [         w,          W                    ]  };
    key <AD03>  { [         e,          E,  EuroSign         ]  };
    key <AD04>  { [         r,          R                    ]  };
    key <AD05>  { [         t,          T                    ]  };
    key <AD06>  { [         y,          Y                    ]  };
    key <AD07>  { [         u,          U                    ]  };
    key <AD08>  { [         i,          I                    ]  };
    key <AD09>  { [         o,          O,  braceleft        ]  };
    key <AD10>  { [         p,          P,  braceright       ]  };
    key <AD11>  { [         bracketleft, braceleft, aring,  Aring ]  };
    key <AD12>  { [bracketright,  braceright, dead_acute, dead_grave ]  };
    key <AC01>  { [         a,          A                    ]  };
    key <AC02>  { [         s,          S                    ]  };
    key <AC03>  { [         d,          D                    ]  };
    key <AC04>  { [         f,          F                    ]  };
    key <AC05>  { [         g,          G                    ]  };
    key <AC06>  { [         h,          H                    ]  };
    key <AC07>  { [         j,          J                    ]  };
    key <AC08>  { [         k,          K                    ]  };
    key <AC09>  { [         l,          L                    ]  };
    key <AC10>  { [ semicolon,  colon, oslash,  Ooblique ]  };
    key <AC11>  { [ apostrophe,  quotedbl, ae,  AE ]  };

    key <BKSL>  { [ backslash,        bar                    ]  };
    key <AB01>  { [         z,          Z                    ]  };
    key <AB02>  { [         x,          X                    ]  };
    key <AB03>  { [         c,          C                    ]  };
    key <AB04>  { [         v,          V                    ]  };
    key <AB05>  { [         b,          B                    ]  };
    key <AB06>  { [         n,          N                    ]  };
    key <AB07>  { [         m,          M,  mu               ]  };
    key <AB08>  { [     comma,       less                    ]  };
    key <AB09>  { [    period,    greater,  colon            ]  };
    key <AB10>  { [     slash,   question                    ]  };
};