For what it's worth, your standard Xorg installation includs an APL layout (with several variants, actually). Something like this is pretty workable: $ set

For what it's worth, your standard Xorg installation includs an APL layout (with several variants, actually). Something like this is pretty workable: $ setxkbmap -layout us,apl -variant ,dyalog -option grp:lswitch You just need to spend a little time learning the layout though.