QWERTY keyboard layout for French-speaking users
A Qwerty layout for French-speaking users.
This layout claims to be better than Azerty for French and better than Qwerty for programming.
The ; key is turned into a dead key that gives access to all acute accents, grave accents, cedillas, digraphs and quote signs you’ll need to write in proper French:
… which leaves the AltGr layer fully available for any customization you have in mind.
The default layout allows to write in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Dutch and Esperanto easily.
More information on the website (in French): https://qwerty-lafayette.org/
https://qwerty-lafayette.org/#download
You’ll need the latest version of Kalamine to build your own layout:
pip3 install kalamine
And build your custom layout like this:
kalamine MyCustomLayout.yaml
Because of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette.
There are other ways to use a Qwerty-US keyboard for French. Here are the two most intuitive ones:
Qwerty-Lafayette provides sharper typography and better ergonomics in the long run, but has a steeper learning curve for non-touch-typists.