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komokana
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Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
kanata[1] and komokana[2].
kanata is basically like QMK for any keyboard without the firmware requirement. I use kanata with my trusty old iMac keyboard which is to this day my favourite keyboard of all time. But now I have all the cool QMK-style layers with it.
So that is awesome on its own, but where it gets even better for me, and this is where the seconds have really added up to hours, is that I wrote another piece of software which programmatically changes layers on kanata whenever a different window is focused in my tiling window manager.
This has honestly changed -everything- for me. I no longer have to waste keys on my keyboard to switch layers, I no longer have to -think- about switching layers, I just focus another window with alt+hjkl and whatever keyboard layer I expect for any given application is automatically applied. Definitely one of those "you can never go back" experiences for me.
[1]: https://github.com/jtroo/kanata
[2]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komokana
- Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust
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ErgodoxE EZ – an ergonomic keyboard with open source firmware
I have an Ergodox EZ sitting collecting dust these days. I got a great deal of use out of it and before long I was compiling my own firmware and making use of various advanced QMK features that were not available through the online visual layer configuration tool.
The keyboard has great build quality, the customer service is great (I got a free replacement for the right half after an issue with one of the keys), the ortholinear layout isn't that difficult to get used to, but ultimately the issue for me was that my hands aren't big enough to use the keyboard comfortably or to type as accurately as I'd like / as I'm used to typing.
I'm now back on my Apple Magic Keyboard and happier than ever, though with a few tweaks and improvements taken from my time using the Ergodox EZ.
I am now using kanata[1] which allows me to have multiple QMK-style layers on my regular old keyboard. This is already a huge step up from my pre-Ergodox days! I also like that I can have my layer configurations version controlled in a plain old git/dotfiles repo.
Since the layers are handled at the software level, I wrote my own integration with kanata, called komokana[2] to switch keyboard layers programmatically based on different state events emitted from my tiling window manager[3].
What that means in practice is that my keyboard can automatically switch to an app-specific layer when that app's window is focused, or to a workspace specific layer, or to a browser tab-specific layer, or really just switch on any event emitted by the window manager or any specific window manager state.
For me, this is really the killer feature of my setup now, and one that I don't think would be anywhere near as easy to implement with QMK which sits at the hardware level.
[1]: https://github.com/jtroo/kanata
[2]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komokana
[3]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi
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diesel-autoincrement-new-struct: Generate NewStructs for all your tables with autoincrementing IDs
Hello friends! You may know me from my previous posts about my tiling window manager and my automatic keyboard layer switcher (or maybe even my harebrained attempts to get Helix to behave more like Vim!)
- Tips on going mouseless on Windows?
- komokana: Automatic application-aware keyboard layer switching
- Show HN: Komokana – Automatic app-aware keyboard layer switcher written in Rust
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Introducing komokana: An automatic application-aware keyboard layer switcher for Windows
With all of these pieces now in place, I am very happy to introduce komokana. an automatic application-aware keyboard layer switcher for Windows.
keyd
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Key remapping to vim navigation and more
I use keyd (https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd) and what I've done is remapped CapsLock down holding to a modifier key that allows me to use vim navigation and more. So when I press CapsLock down I can use jkl; for navigation. I've also added u and i as page up and down. For browser back and forward use n and m. Just pressing CapsLock acts as an esc press.
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Debugging touchpad issues with keyd remapper
I recently started using Asahi Linux on my M1 mac. I installed Fedora 39 Server and I use sway as my wm but these issues with keyd https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd appear even before I start sway.
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Show HN: I automated 1/2 of my typing
This is great. Is it possible to somehow use it with keyd, as I don't use autohotkey?
https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd/
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Espanso incompatible with keyd key remapping
I'm using both [keyd](https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd) to remap some keys (Hold Capslock -> Hold Ctrl, and Press Capslock -> Press Esc) and espanso to insert some snippet.
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How to switch caps lock to escape properly
Try https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd works really well for linux.
- Input Remapper Question
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Some useful software customizations for my NyPhy Air60 (linux)
There's some customizations I did with keyd that could be useful for others. See here
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Toward a More Useful Keyboard
On Linux, I use keyd[1] and while I understand that keyd itelf could never run on the Mac, I'd love something that could take my keyd conf and make it work (even approximately) on the Mac.
[1]: https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd
- Keyd: Linux Key Remapper
What are some alternatives?
kanata - Improve keyboard comfort and usability with advanced customization
kmonad - An advanced keyboard manager
komorebi - A tiling window manager for Windows 🍉
kinto - Mac-style shortcut keys for Linux & Windows.
yasb - A highly configurable cross-platform (Windows) status bar written in Python.
key-mapper - 🎮 An easy to use tool to change the mapping of your input device buttons. [Moved to: https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper]
qmk_configurator - The QMK Configurator
xkeysnail - Yet another keyboard remapping tool for X environment
splitKbCompare - An interactive tool for comparing layouts of different split mechanical keyboards
linux
helix-vim - A Vim-like configuration for Helix
awesome-wayland - A curated list of Wayland code and resources.