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xcape
- Remap caps lock to behave like escape on press and control on hold on Xorg
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Binding a single key on release AND binding that same key in another combination
Don't know about i3, but you can achieve this in Linux/X11 using for example xcape: https://github.com/alols/xcape
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Keyboard shortcut on key release
I guess that xcape is what you're looking for.
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How to assign Overview to meta ?
You can use xcape (I assume xorg only; https://github.com/alols/xcape) to set any key including super/meta to trigger a custom keyboard shortcut on release.
- Launch an application with just the mod button
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Have you remapped CTRL and ESC, and if so, how?
Caps Lock is both Control and Escape depending on whether you hold or tap it. I use xcape.
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How to make my pinkie and vanilla keybindings get along?
All you need is dual mode modifiers - remap your spacebar to act as Ctrl when pressed and generate space symbol when released. You can make it with xcape on linux and with dual-key-remap on windows. It is also something for macos, but I never used it.
- Whats your favourite i3 hacks you can't live without?
- completely new to i3 and trying to get this config to work
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Vim with caps lock on is the final boss
I have the same setup on linux. Using xcape and xmodmap together.
sxhkd
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How handle two speakers in dwm?
Hello, firstly I would separate all these non wm related keybindings to a program like sxhkd (https://github.com/baskerville/sxhkd) it's config is easier to modify on the fly and less bloat/unrelated stuff in window managers codebase is always better.
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whkd: A simple hotkey daemon for Windows
After getting frustrated trying to update the library generation code to conform to the AHK2 syntax changes, I decided to run with an idea that I've had for a while now: writing my own simple hotkey daemon for windows based on skhd and sxhkd.
- How to make a keybinding for dmenu_run in .xinitrc?
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What's the closest equivalent of AHK for LINUX?
For GUI automation and the like, I would recommend checking out xdotool and maybe sxhkd for keybinds -- though, each DE/WM tends to have some method of handling keybindings in its own way.
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shod: an acme-like window manager that tile windows inside floating containers
You control shod via a remote controller, called shodc. You map shodc calls to keybindings using a third application (a keybinder like sxhkd).
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Chromebook
That said, if you enable linux app support, you can use something like sxhkd for hotkey definitions in combination with bash scripting.
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Volume Control Works on MATE but not BSPWM
Not that I know, at least the general syntax is said to work with KEYSYMs only. However! I've been reading some more about it and you can try this: if you're not using a US layout keyboard, start sxhkd -m 1 as described here https://github.com/baskerville/sxhkd/issues/249. And just out of curiosity, maybe you can check if you have the proper drivers installed (again, sorry I don't know the details) but at least I have xf86-input-libinput installed.
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Getting keyboard to work....
Because we specify super/ctrl/alt as modifiers x11 doesn't distinguish between left and right. See https://github.com/baskerville/sxhkd/issues/89
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Best way to insert the ñ character.
Now I have an script that copy the char to the clipboard when I press that shortcut. This is archived using [sxhkd](https://github.com/baskerville/sxhkd). Is there a better way?
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Show HN: A tiling window manager like i3wm written in C#
komorebi dev here. I can't tell you the number of times I've wanted to just write my own take on sxhkd[1] for Windows and use that to manage my own keybindings for komorebi instead of ahk.
You can just as easily write your own/use another hotkey daemon or PowerShell scripts to handle komorebi's configuration and keybindings, in that sense there is no dependency on ahk at all. However, the inertia around ahk in the Windows ecosystem is undeniable and it's in the interests of making adoption and onboarding easier that the project provides example ahk files and has invested in an ahk code generation library.
My thoughts on the dominant hotkey daemon in the Windows ecosystem aside, I remain convinced that the famous bspwm socket communication architecture[2] is the best way to handle both configuration and keybindings for a tiling window manager that has been proposed to this today.
Unfortunately I have to concede that there is a certain configuration burden that comes with komorebi, which is amplified in some cases by having to write/maintain ahk. This configuration burden is largely due to the highly fragmented nature of Windows application development that is discussed often on HN and it is inescapable.
With this in mind, the next release of komorebi (currently available on master) will invest even more heavily in automatic configuration generation.
A separate repository of common application-specific configuration tweaks[3] (in YAML!) has been created which I and others from the komorebi Discord server are contributing to, with the goal of having the edge cases for as many applications as possible fully documented so that a comprehensive configuration file can be generated[4] for the user which ensures that every (major) Windows application behaves as expected under a tiling window manager.
I hope that other Windows tiling window manager developers can use these YAML definitions in the future to handle the same edge cases in their projects so that eventually there will be a tiling window manager of every flavour (bspwm, i3wm etc.) available for Windows users where having to manually accommodate and compensate for the non-standard behaviour of individual applications is a thing of the past.
[1]: https://github.com/baskerville/sxhkd
[2]: https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm#description
[3]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi-application-specific-conf...
[4]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi/#generating-common-applic...
What are some alternatives?
kmonad - An advanced keyboard manager
scripts - *Well documented* scripts exploiting some useful UNIX utilities.
evremap - A keyboard input remapper for Linux/Wayland systems, written by @wez
bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning
linux
releases
dual-key-remap - Remap any key to any other two keys on Windows 🔥. Remap CapsLock to both Ctrl and Escape! (It's like xcape for windows!)
NvChad - Blazing fast Neovim config providing solid defaults and a beautiful UI, enhancing your neovim experience.
ahk-caps-ctrl-esc - Autohotkey script that maps Capslock to Esc *and* Ctrl
shotkey - A simple and lightweight hotkey daemon for X with configurable custom modes and key chords (in ~200 LOC)
sharpkeys - SharpKeys is a utility that manages a Registry key that allows Windows to remap one key to any other key.
win-vind - You can operate Windows with key bindings like Vim.