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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
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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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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.
xkeysnail
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Liberating the MacBook Air 2013 with Linux
FYI: You can enable them in Gnome with Gnome-Tweaks. Apparently a very recent version of Gnome dropped this functionality for reasons that are beyond my understanding (but that's often the case when I look at the decisions that the Gnome devs make).
However, getting the Control -> Command/Super thing to work is much trickier. The best way is to use this: https://github.com/mooz/xkeysnail
However when I tried that, I ran into all kinds of weird behaviours all over the OS. Also, it doesn't work with Wayland.
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Everything is gone. EVERYTHING
If the likes of https://github.com/mooz/xkeysnail/issues/43 are still a going concern then it's not quite as "everywhere" as one would like, and I presume that issue is a fundamental one (i.e. it doesn't sound like XKeySnail gets first refusal on key events).
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Emacs + a nice theme + editing features is awesome! (plus some questions about extra configuration)
And I use XKeySnail to have the basic Emacs keys everywhere. I'm sure there are others, but it does enough to keep me happy.
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Would you still recommend EXWM in 2022?
https://github.com/mooz/xkeysnail or the fork of it, I forget it's name, will allow you to do the same as exwm's simulation keys with any window manager.
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What's the alternative of Authotkey ?
Thanks for the suggestion guys. I decided to go with xkeysnail ( https://github.com/mooz/xkeysnail/ ). So far so good.
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komokana: Automatic application-aware keyboard layer switching
Similar options for Linux users are keyd and xkeysnail
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How can I make my keyboard layout change automatically when I focus on a application?
https://github.com/mooz/xkeysnail or something similar ?
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How to Bind Super + C and Super + V to Copy and Paste in Terminal ?
Bind everything you want: https://github.com/mooz/xkeysnail
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What's the best way to remap mod key(e.x. ctrl)+hjkl to arrow keys
xkeysnail is not bad in the two sense, however, there are some application do can distinguish them, say, chrome and neovide
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Is there any way to set application specific keyboard shortcuts on linux?
If you're using x11, there's xkeysnail
What are some alternatives?
kanata - Improve keyboard comfort and usability with advanced customization
awesome-wayland - A curated list of Wayland code and resources.
komorebi - A tiling window manager for Windows 🍉
kmonad - An advanced keyboard manager
yasb - A highly configurable cross-platform (Windows) status bar written in Python.
warpd - A modal keyboard-driven virtual pointer
qmk_configurator - The QMK Configurator
keyd - A key remapping daemon for linux.
splitKbCompare - An interactive tool for comparing layouts of different split mechanical keyboards
espanso - Cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust
helix-vim - A Vim-like configuration for Helix
AutoKey - AutoKey, a desktop automation utility for Linux and X11.