footswitch
Command-line utility for PCsensor and Scythe foot switches (by rgerganov)
footswitcher
Switch vim modes (and more) with a USB pedal (by baumschubser)
| footswitch | footswitcher | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 1 | |
| 401 | 0 | |
| - | - | |
| 3.5 | 10.0 | |
| 7 days ago | about 6 years ago | |
| C | C | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
footswitch
Posts with mentions or reviews of footswitch.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-18.
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Has anyone gotten a PCSensor foot switch/pedal to work on Gentoo?
This is the one I have. Some lovely soul built a Linux-native utility to program it, which can be found here: https://github.com/rgerganov/footswitch
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Any cheap foot pedals that don't require Windows for set up?
Do you happen to remember what post you saw? I saw this utility, but I'm always a little antsy when I have to sudo make install from GitHub, particularly if it seems to a hobbyist project lol.
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Vim Foot Pedal
Until I switched to a kneeling chair I had a 3 button foot pedal under my desk. I programmed it with https://github.com/rgerganov/footswitch and it worked an absolute treat. As an i3 devotee it was even more special.
It didn't support up/down events but that was ok for me.
For me the mapping was:
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Vim Clutch for Emacs?
This project makes it possible to program the device from Linux.
footswitcher
Posts with mentions or reviews of footswitcher.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-18.
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Vim Foot Pedal
A couple of years ago I made a software-only thing to trigger two alternating key sequences (e.g. Esc and i) by pressing down one of those cheap USB pedals. A little bit hacky but it works. https://github.com/baumschubser/footswitcher
What are some alternatives?
When comparing footswitch and footswitcher you can also consider the following projects:
midiStroke - MIDI to Keystroke Macro convertor for OS X
midi-to-keypress - Takes MIDI input and turns it into keypresses
evil-escape - Customizable key sequence to escape from insert state and everything else in Emacs.