dotfiles VS ktrl

I'm in the middle of switching now, from Silverblue. It's a lot of fun. The Arch wiki to do something will have you changing three files and restarting 2 services, while with NixOS you add a line to your config and you're done. And when something doesn't exist as a Nix package/config, it seems somewhat easy to build your self (compared to other package managers, at least). I realized there's no "game-devices" package last night, for example, but I was able to get this working in about an hour of Googling:

https://github.com/pkulak/dotfiles/blob/nix/nix/gamedevices....

Still not all the way in. Like, I'm still going to use Chezmoi for my home directory because I don't quite see the value-add of Home Manager, but who knows; maybe I'll be a super fan next year and move everything over.

Fonts were always a PITA for me too, until I realized you can just drop whatever you want in ~.local/share/fonts. Then you can even track them with whatever dotfile manager you use and always have them available on every machine you use, immutable or not. There's zero need to involve a package manager.

I just have a wrapper script that I run instead of sway itself.

That doesn't fly with me. I just use Alacritty and re-bind the keys so I can still use ctrl-c and v:

https://github.com/pkulak/dotfiles/blob/master/.config/alacr...

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

I found the configuration a bit confusing, and an alternative I ended up using is https://github.com/ItayGarin/ktrl.

On Linux you could use ktrl layers to change the keyboard layout on the fly.

Maybe try ktrl

ktrl is based around this idea with layers.

Bruh, next level is mapping caps lock to both ctrl and esc using a tap dance daemon https://github.com/ItayGarin/ktrl