How to Set Keyboard Bindings to Programmer’s Dvorak on Ubuntu Using setxkbmap

Changing over to programmer’s Dvorak on Ubuntu is really easy:

setxkbmap -layout us -variant dvp

Note that if you want to switch back to US layout, you can just drop the variant:

setxkbmap -layout us

If you want to check what the current layout you are using is, you can run:

setxkbmap -query

That’s it!