Toward a More Useful Keyboard

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  • keyboard

    ⌨ Toward a more useful keyboard (by jasonrudolph)

  • TPMouse

    A virtual trackball for Windows, via vim-like homerow controls.

  • With the TPMouse script I implemented the activation shortcut as LShift+RShift+ which I felt had a nice balance between deliberateness and easy-to-reach (since you are using it with your hands on homerow).

    Though because some keyboards have key rollover issues with using both Shifts, Capslock+ is also allowed as an alternative activation shortcut.

    [0] https://github.com/EsportToys/TPMouse

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  • keyd

    A key remapping daemon for linux.

  • On Linux, I use keyd[1] and while I understand that keyd itelf could never run on the Mac, I'd love something that could take my keyd conf and make it work (even approximately) on the Mac.

    [1]: https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd

  • kmonad

    An advanced keyboard manager

  • qwerty-fr

    Qwerty keyboard layout with French accents

  • If you're in need of AZERTY-specific keys and you're on a QWERTY layout, take a look at https://github.com/qwerty-fr/qwerty-fr.

    It's a strict superset of QWERTY, and it enables entering e.g. è and È with altgr+e and shift+altgr+e respectively.

  • plover-left-hand-modifiers

  • If you are going to do all this, you might be better off getting a half of a steno keyboard, plover, and use https://github.com/Abkwreu/plover-left-hand-modifiers/blob/m....

    I have access to/can input nearly any shortcut, punctuation, modifier, reg key, numpad, number bar, arrow keys, etc all on one hand, and the system is very easy to learn. I don't care about shortcuts anymore as they are all nearly the same difficulty to input, and I never need to move my hand to do it. This takes only a few hours to learn at most.

    Hitting ctrl+t on a keyboard once is more wrist/finger movement than I normally see all day using this.

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