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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.
yasb
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Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons
What an absolute mess. In the meantime I'm glad to have seen alternatives like yasb[1] popping up.
[1]: https://github.com/denBot/yasb
- Mars is cool
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Winfiles - Ultimate Dev Setup for Windows 🪟🪄
You can use yasb to show a status bar, similar to polybar. Follow instructions on yasb to set up.
- my furry desktop
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Desktop with newly installed Windows 11
I used yasb : https://github.com/denBot/yasb
- Introducing komokana: An automatic application-aware keyboard layer switcher for Windows
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kanata v1.0.5: an advanced keyboard remapper for Windows+Linux
I develop and maintain a twm for Windows and one of the things that I implemented after many requests was a subscription service to allow other applications to listen to and respond to events emitted by the window manager. This allowed people to make stuff like status bars that integrate with and respond to the window manager's state changes.
- Show HN: Komorebi (a tiling window manager for Windows written in Rust) v0.1.9
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Komorebi (a tiling window manager for Windows) v0.1.9 is out!
A push-based event subscription API that allows other applications to subscribe to the latest komorebi events. This is in particular super useful if you want to write your own statusbar. yasb is a great example of a status bar written in Python that subscribes to the latest events from komorebi to always show the most up-to-date information about workspaces and application windows to the user.
What are some alternatives?
kanata - Improve keyboard comfort and usability with advanced customization
komorebi - A tiling window manager for Windows 🍉
qmk_configurator - The QMK Configurator
django-searchable-select - A better and faster multiple selection widget with suggestions
splitKbCompare - An interactive tool for comparing layouts of different split mechanical keyboards
kmonad - An advanced keyboard manager
helix-vim - A Vim-like configuration for Helix
PaperWM - Tiled scrollable window management for Gnome Shell
ErgoDox - ErgoDox Mechanical Keyboard pcb & acrylic case
komorebi-application-specific-configuration - A central place to document all tweaks required for Komorebi to 'just work' with as many applications as possible