pycharm-dvorak-keymap

IntelliJ keyboard shortcuts are QWERTY though keyboard is Dvorak.

For all you geeks using a Dvorak keyboard layout and a jetbrains IDE (eg. pycharm, phpstorm etc) you may have noticed an annoying issue where the keymap goes back to qwerty when you use a modifier. This messes up all the keyboard shortcuts.

There's a very old bug on jetbrains' tracker, but they are saying it should be fixed upstream by JDK, which of course will never happen. So here is a keymap for getting your familiar old shortcuts back.

I use this on Linux/GNOME. If you're working on a Mac, using karabiner is a better solution.

Installation

In your IDE, choose File -> Import settings... and select dvorak_settings.jar

What if I don't use the GNOME keymap?

Maybe one day I'll generate bugfixed maps for OSX and the other defaults. Until that day, you could try the script to_dvorak.py to generate your own bugfixed keymap.

You'll need:

• Python (either 2 or 3, doesn't matter)
• Couple of requirements - pip install beautifulsoup4 lxml
• An input file to remap

For the default keymaps, look in <pycharm>/lib/resources.jar/idea/Keymap_*.xml. In case you didn't know, a .jar file is just a zip!

Will the script work for PhpStorm, CLion, RubyMine etc?

I don't know, probably. Try it and let me know.