kmonad
An advanced keyboard manager (by kmonad)
patches
Collection of patches for dwm, st and dmenu (by bakkeby)
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kmonad
Posts with mentions or reviews of kmonad.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-09.
- FW13 keyboard QMK support
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Cursorless is alien magic from the future – Xe Iaso
have you actually tried that? afaik they don't get you the perfect home row mods due to some limitations re. how they implement the tap vs hold logic
https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad/issues/228
- KMonad version 0.4.2 is available
- KMonad – a keyboard manager with layers, multi-tap, tap-hold, and more
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The unix69 keyboard layout: nerdy and nice
I use kmonad[1] to have QMK-like functionality on any keyboard.
https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad
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Can't find F13-24 labels
You can create F13-F24 purely in software with key mapping tools. On Windows, one way is with the PowerToys Keyboard Manager: remap some unimportant keys to F13, F14, etc. Another way is with KMonad (cross platform), and define the keymap with KeyF13, KeyF14, etc.
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Some useful software customizations for my NyPhy Air60 (linux)
There you have the software link : https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad
- Keyboard Layout Is Broken
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No linux drivers for rgb and macros?
Other option I would suggest for any linux user with keyboards without QMK is to try KMonad https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad
- Toward a More Useful Keyboard
patches
Posts with mentions or reviews of patches.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-06.
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patch to center tiled windows on the stack
It would be possible to have gaps by default without wasting space, they would just be smaller. Current gaps patches waste even more space than 'resizehints = 0'. This patch appears to be a big challenge, but it would be very interesting to see it done. Something like the centered_size_hints patch but with better space/cpu usage would already be great.
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Anysize leaving gaps in st
I made this patch after that post for reference: https://github.com/bakkeby/patches/wiki/anysize-simple
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How can you set the st geometry offset relative to the screen size as a dwm shortcut
I'd recommend that you have a look at the floatrules patch and alternatively if you need percentages then I have another patch called floatpos.
- Make the focusstack feature avoid a certain program.
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tag.restore and tag.noempty
As for 1. you may want to consider toggletag which is a one-line patch which makes it so that when you do MOD+1 to move to tag 1 and if you do MOD+1 again then it moves you back to the previous tag (5 in the example case).
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Patch to improve the zoom function
I believe the zoomswap, stacker and restrictfocus patches could help solving this problem. The functions needed to be changed probably are zoom and maybe pop. I tried to figure it out, but couldn't since I don't know C right now. But hopefully the information on this post can help, so one can fix it if he can and wants to.
- patch to separate focus between master and stack areas
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How do you set the width of dmenu to the screen width after application of the xyw patch?
You may also want to consider applying the barpadding patch for dwm into dmenu, this is easier to do than it sounds. I created an example patch a while back: https://github.com/bakkeby/patches/wiki/barpadding
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alpha patch makes my dwm doesn't starting
It's difficult to make alpha and systray patches sing together. Use bakkeby patch that does them both: https://github.com/bakkeby/patches/blob/master/dwm/dwm-alpha-systray-6.3_full.diff
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How do I change multi-monitor tag behaviour
I had an example patch for that: dwm-desktop-6.3.diff
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kmonad and patches you can also consider the following projects:
keyd - A key remapping daemon for linux.
dwm-flexipatch - A dwm build with preprocessor directives to decide which patches to include during build time
AutoHotkey - AutoHotkey - macro-creation and automation-oriented scripting utility for Windows.
chadwm - Making dwm as beautiful as possible!
qmk_firmware - Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
dwm-single-tagset-6.2 - single-tagset patch for dwm 6.2
homebrew-qmk - QMK Homebrew Formulae
dwm-directionalfocus - Adding directional focus to dwm
sharpkeys - SharpKeys is a utility that manages a Registry key that allows Windows to remap one key to any other key.
rofi - A huge collection of Rofi based custom Applets, Launchers & Powermenus.
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
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