Keyboard layout to shift wasd keys
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        Published on 2010-06-13T22:38:30Z
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I like to play video games on my computer.  One of the things that bugs me, though, is how the wasd keys became the standard movement keys in first person shooters and mmorpgs.  To me, esdf makes a lot more sense, because that matches your normal hand placement for typing.  "Fixing" that layout is always the first thing I do when installing a new game.  Sadly, this is often a pain in the neck, and some games won't let you do it at all.
Is there an alternative keyboard layout you can install that will just switch these around, so the wasd keys fall in the esdf positions? And is low-level enough two work with DirectX/DirectInput, perhaps that works with the language bar for easy swapping back and forth?
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