yasb VS kmonad

What an absolute mess. In the meantime I'm glad to have seen alternatives like yasb[1] popping up.

[1]: https://github.com/denBot/yasb

You can use yasb to show a status bar, similar to polybar. Follow instructions on yasb to set up.

I used yasb : https://github.com/denBot/yasb

I develop and maintain a twm for Windows and one of the things that I implemented after many requests was a subscription service to allow other applications to listen to and respond to events emitted by the window manager. This allowed people to make stuff like status bars that integrate with and respond to the window manager's state changes.

A push-based event subscription API that allows other applications to subscribe to the latest komorebi events. This is in particular super useful if you want to write your own statusbar. yasb is a great example of a status bar written in Python that subscribes to the latest events from komorebi to always show the most up-to-date information about workspaces and application windows to the user.

have you actually tried that? afaik they don't get you the perfect home row mods due to some limitations re. how they implement the tap vs hold logic

https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad/issues/228

I use kmonad[1] to have QMK-like functionality on any keyboard.

https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad

You can create F13-F24 purely in software with key mapping tools. On Windows, one way is with the PowerToys Keyboard Manager: remap some unimportant keys to F13, F14, etc. Another way is with KMonad (cross platform), and define the keymap with KeyF13, KeyF14, etc.

There you have the software link : https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad

Other option I would suggest for any linux user with keyboards without QMK is to try KMonad https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad