sharpkeys
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sharpkeys
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Shortcut for rotating canvas by 15° left or right without a mouse
I don't like using my mouse while drawing and I couldn't find how to do this anywhere, but luckily when I was about to give up I achieved it! So, for this you'll need a program called SharpKeys. You can download it here: https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys/
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Caps Lock Behaviour Disabled in Gnome
Sharpkeys can swap keys, the readme says as much:
> Things that SharpKeys will do:
> ...
> Allow you to swap two keys with each other - e.g. you can swap Left Windows with Left Control and vice versa
I do have a vague recollection of Sharpkeys previously saying that it couldn’t, but that I tried and it worked. Long time since I last used Windows though.
https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys#things-that-sharpkey...
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Total Commander
> Total commander isn’t FOSS.
I'm aware of that. There are lots of FOSS equivalents, though. Including, I believe, on Windows. Wikipedia lists 23 of which I think -- haven't checked -- the majority are FOSS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_manager#Orthodox_file_man...
> Ironically windows 11 can’t do vertical taskbars.
True. Easily fixed with Explorer Patcher, though. Which, ironically, is FOSS.
> And where in windows can you change the system shortcuts?
I don't use it much any more and stopped early this century, so my knowledge here may be out of date.
When I do, I use SharpKeys to put a GUI on editing the relevant registry keys for keyboard remapping.
https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys
In the NT 3.x era, it was the properties of every EXE's PIF file. So I set Crtl+Alt+(initial) to open my most used apps. Ctrl+Alt+D for DOS, E for Excel, W for Word, etc.
This still works with limitations under Win9x through to XP, which is when I jumped off the Windows ship.
But mostly it's about learning the many many built-ins.
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Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts
Remapping Capslock to Control:
Windows: https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys
Ubuntu Linux (don't know about other Linuxes): /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/pc
key { [ Caps_Lock ] };
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Window key not working as intended
There's a little utility program called Sharpkeys that lets you remap the functions of every key on the keyboard.
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Taking control of the super key.
Sharpkeys
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Menu Key in Adobe Premiere (Windows)
This application can be used to do that. You'll notice it can't see the menu key either if you try to autodetect it, so you need to set it manually. It's listed as:
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How can i assign a key to a diffrent one
https://www.randyrants.com/ or the Microsoft Store
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Setup Media Key shortcuts
SharpKeys: available in the Microsoft Store. Or you can get it here: https://www.randyrants.com/category/sharpkeys/ or here: https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys
- Keychron K6 key remapping help
linux
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Linux Mint Working on Wayland Support
It's actually incredibly useful to have apps like window managers or apps that rely on manipulating user input like xcape read another apps data. In fact such are still possible just 10x as complicated as they now involve writing awful little programs in some combination of c and yaml instead of a dead simple single line shell invocation of a program.
See https://gitlab.com/interception/linux/tools
The fact that this can work at all seems to suggest that its just as possible for malicious code running as user to compromise your security and the only thing actually broken is useful apps.
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Issue with interception-tools
After updating my system after a while, i found Interception-tools to not working . It fails on a dependency on libyaml-cpp.so.0.7
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<ESC> substitution
You can try to use https://gitlab.com/interception/linux/tools/-/tree/master
- Mapping Caps-Lock to Esc is life changing
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What's a very simple config change that you can't live without?
Having both is a game-changer. Depends on your OS. On Mac, I use Karabiner. Linux I used use caps2esc and on Windows I use a custom AutoHotKey.
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Emacs-written novel on the German bestseller list
Before that I had used interception tools for key rebindings, which relied on the udevmon service to intercept keypress events, and thus even works in a TTY terminal, not requiring a window manager. I use vim keybindings in Emacs and for that I found it useful to rebind ESC to CTRL if tapped, but it still acts as CTRL when held (now I have implemented that in my keyboard firmware).
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newbie doubt here
In addition to using ctrl+a as prefix... some of us remap capslock to ctrl so then the two buttons are right next to each other and easy to press with one motion. (This then makes it possible to have that key be ctrl when pressed in combo with another key or esc when pressed on its own.)
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Mapping Alt+hjkl to arrow keys (sway, wayland)
i use both X and Wayland and i also have a lot of key switching going on. So to have a universal config that works under both protocols i have to go lower than the display server protocols. I looked around for such a thing and finally found the interception tool
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How to swap Caps Lock and Ctrl?
Do you know about https://gitlab.com/interception/linux/plugins/caps2esc? It makes it ctrl when held in combo with another key or esc when pressed on its own w/o other key (I loved it before ergodox) and there are some related plugins there for other keyboard customizations as well.
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TUTORIAL: Making Caps do both Control and Esc like Caps2Esc, but with only hyprland+ydotool
Caps2Esc is a very useful input remapping utility: it turns the Caps key into either Esc or Control depending on how it's used: - if the Caps key is released before another key is pressed, it emits Esc - If the Caps key is used in chording mode, like by pressing Caps and C, it emits Control, to send Control-C
What are some alternatives?
PowerToys - Windows system utilities to maximize productivity
Rectangle - Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas
NohBoard - A Keyboard Visualizer
keyd - A key remapping daemon for linux.
kmonad - An advanced keyboard manager
kinto - Mac-style shortcut keys for Linux & Windows.
wincompose - 🔣 Compose Key for Windows
xcape - Linux utility to configure modifier keys to act as other keys when pressed and released on their own.
key-mapper - 🎮 An easy to use tool to change the mapping of your input device buttons. [Moved to: https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper]
Mailspring-Libre - (archived) Mailspring Libre build – aiming at removing Mailspring's dependecy on a central server
evremap - A keyboard input remapper for Linux/Wayland systems, written by @wez
QuickLook - Bring macOS “Quick Look” feature to Windows