ktrl
A Supercharged Keyboard Programming Daemon ⌨️ (by ItayGarin)
yay
Yet another Yogurt - An AUR Helper written in Go (by Jguer)
| ktrl | yay | |
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| 6 | 126 | |
| 322 | 10,342 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.9 | 8.5 | |
| about 1 year ago | 7 days ago | |
| Rust | Go | |
| GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
ktrl
Posts with mentions or reviews of ktrl.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-15.
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Switching from macOS to Pop _OS
I haven't tried but it seems like you could use a keybinding daemon to effectively remap any application by changing layer in response to window focus changes.
See Ktrl + alt or Kmonad
https://github.com/ItayGarin/ktrl
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KMonad gives you superpowers & you'll end up using it everyday
I found the configuration a bit confusing, and an alternative I ended up using is https://github.com/ItayGarin/ktrl.
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It's 2021. There is still no option to rebind keys in a Paradox game
On Linux you could use ktrl layers to change the keyboard layout on the fly.
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A way to set up different keymap for a specific usb keyboard ?
Maybe try ktrl
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How to bind layout switching to separate key for each layout?
ktrl is based around this idea with layers.
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Just mapped my caps lock to escape for the first time...
Bruh, next level is mapping caps lock to both ctrl and esc using a tap dance daemon https://github.com/ItayGarin/ktrl
yay
Posts with mentions or reviews of yay.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-06.
- Arch yay 0 current speed
- 2 things I didn't know about yay until today.
- How to find the download command for a program.
- Newish Linux user : package management woes
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Top Productivity CLI Tools I Use on Linux
yay is a robust and user-friendly AUR (Arch User Repository) helper for Arch Linux and Arch-based distributions written in Go.
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Installed Arch Linux
paru has better defaults and --chroot, whereas it's still an open issue for yay.
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Discovery gives "The PackageKit daemon has crashed" error suddenly (Arch)
If you use AUR packages, you might want to use an AUR helper that wraps pacman, like paru or yay.
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I'm seriously so sick of the pop ups on every website I visit.
This one: https://github.com/Jguer/yay Didn't know there were others..
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List of available software to install?
you can use an aur helper like yay
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ERROR after python3.11 update
Yay is hopelessly broken, it pretends to rebuild stuff when, in fact, it doesn't. See: https://github.com/Jguer/yay/issues/2153
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ktrl and yay you can also consider the following projects:
xremap - Key remapper for X11 and Wayland
paru - Feature packed AUR helper
kmonad - An advanced keyboard manager
trizen - Lightweight AUR Package Manager
rkvm - Virtual KVM switch for Linux machines
ansible-aur - Ansible module to manage packages from the AUR
kmonad - An advanced keyboard manager
rua - Build tool for Arch Linux providing control, review and jailed build options
xkbgroup - Query and change XKB layout state
spotify-adblock-linux - Spotify adblocker for Linux
GokuRakuJoudo - config karabiner with ease
Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code