kbd VS alt-tab-macos

Many people have appeared problem with fonts!!! Legionus is trying to resolve appeared issue: https://github.com/legionus/kbd/issues/99

If you're not using systemd, somewhere during boot you will probably want to use the unicode_start script, part of the kbd project.

I use QMK it's firmware that communicates between you input devices and the rest of the computer. But not all keyboards (especially laptop keyboards) are not QMK compatible. In these situations you can use KBD does much of the same things except specificly for keyboard input and also is not as customizable.

Links to some things I'm reading to see what is possible if anyone is interested. https://www.datafix.com.au/BASHing/2020-02-19.html (adding a function in bashrc that cleans up tty a bit) https://github.com/legionus/kbd (don't understand yet but looks like an option) https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KMSCON ( cheating? Using a drop in console)

Kernel with config programs from kbd

There's a console tool called `chvt` which switches to a numbered vt. The source is at https://github.com/legionus/kbd/blob/master/src/chvt.c it looks like it uses a few ioctl's on the tty

> - Can't tab cycle through minimized windows

> - Windowing system sucks compared to Windows

Checkout: https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos solved most of my pains with it.

I use AltTab [0] for this. I find using a mac without it horrendous.

[0]: https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/

I know of this app which allows you to port that functionality: https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/

Disclaimer: I have never used it, one of my colleagues mentioned it a while ago.

If you're using a Mac, I really recommend alt-tab https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/.

I love cmd+tab on a mac to switch between applications, but I was missing a feature to switch between windows of the same application. Alt+tab solves that in the same manner Windows does.

I know this isn’t the point of your post, but in case it helps your experience in MacOS:

1. You can change the setting so that workspaces do not change their position/order. See: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/214348/how-to-prev...

2. The third party app “alt-tab” provides an alt tab experience that is much better than the native one, and is likely more similar to the behavior you expect from Linux. See: https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app

I also personally like to use Rectangle for window positioning using keyboard shortcuts, tried the various auto tiling solutions like yabai and amethyst in the past but I think the flexibility of Rectangle is worth having to remember and use a few keyboard shortcuts.

I think it’s unfortunate that so many third party apps are required, but with a bit of babysitting MacOS can be pretty decent to work with.

AltTab MacOS app

There's likely a delay so that you can use Alt-Tab to quickly go back to your last window without the pop-up showing. I use AltTab on macOS like this, which has a configurable delay.

https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/