I'm not the only one with this probmem.
Switching to workman layout.
I tried on ubuntu 12 and 14 on two different computers with the same error.
Following instructions in this question but get error message Error loading new keyboard description. Can't figure it out. I copy and paste from tutorials so it is not my spelling. (I am running in virtualbox on windows). I do this. First download workman.iso15.kmap.
sudo cp workman.iso15.kmap /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/workman
setxkbmap -v workman && xset r 66
This is my error message.
edler@Prog88:~$ setxkbmap -v workman -v
Warning! Multiple definitions of keyboard layout
Using command line, ignoring X server
Applied rules from evdev:
rules: evdev
model: pc105
layout: workman
Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes: evdev+aliases(qwerty)
types: complete
compat: complete
symbols: pc+workman+inet(evdev)
geometry: pc(pc105)
Error loading new keyboard description
Also. This worked one year ago in the 12.04 linux. There is definately the right keyboard description. But now it does not load (it did one year ago). Strange.