Using Custom Keyboard Layouts

We have had several requests to support X keyboard layout. As much as I don't like to say it, We can't support custom layouts.

Its downright impossible to guess at what a custom layout should map to on a Windows machine. The default Apple keyboard layouts (or at least most of them) and their Windows' counterparts are hard coded into a text file inside of CoRD's resources folder.

That being said, you can add items to that list yourself:

• Open the directory where you have CoRD installed (/Applications or ~/Applications)
• Right click (ctrl-click) on CoRD and choose Show Package Contents
• Open the Contents Folder, then the Resources folder
• Open the windows_keymap_table.txt file
• For the name given on the left of the pair you add should be the last component of the bundle ID of the key layout you're using. Once you open the file it will hopefully make more sense.
• Find the appropriate layout you wish Windows to use, and enter that as your value for the pair.

For help with this, see the support forums.

We already have a feature request to make this manageable via a GUI in CoRD's preferences. That may come in a later version.