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A mouseless tale: trying for a keyboard-driven desktop
If anyone is trying to reach mouseless nirvana on Windows, I maintain a tiling window manager[1] and a hotkey daemon[2] (though you can bring your own thanks to the architecture choices I made), the former of which provides a very robust event subscription system which you can integrate with using any language of your choice.
One of the cooler parts of my little mouseless ecosystem is that I automatically have different keyboard layers (QMK style) activate depending on which application is currently focused, saving me a whole bunch of time fumbling around with obscure hotkey combinations for changing layers![3]
[1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi
[2]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/whkd
[3]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komokana
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WSL and Vim development setup
in powertoys, find a feature called “keyboard manager”. if you want to go deep into keymapping in windows, checkout autohotkey and whkd
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Somehow AutoHotKey is kinda good now
It was only when I started writing my own sxhkd-inspired hotkey daemon[1] for Windows that I really started to appreciate just how _good_ AHK is. Even just for hotkey binding, AHK does some incredibly clever stuff very transparently to provide for such an excellent end-user experience. For example, using system hooks automatically when the user tries to bind a hotkey combination that is reserved by the system (usually win+something) is implemented so well. Really excellent software and I miss it when I'm using Linux or macOS.
[1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/whkd
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AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement
I ended up using AHK for komorebi[1] because I was still new to Windows when I start writing it and I didn't wanna have to write a tiling window manager AND a hotkey daemon. I even ended up generating a nice little AHK library to wrap around CLI commands that sent socket messages to the window manager to make it easier to write a configuration.
Ultimately the syntax changes make it impossible to fully reproduce the same library for AHKv2, which is being installed by default on all mainstream package managers now.
I ended up biting the bullet and making my own hotkey daemon[2] for use with komorebi based on skhd[3] and I haven't looked back since. This will be the "blessed" hotkey daemon recommended for use in the next release of komorebi.
I'm still using AHK (v1) for the stuff that it's good at (and there is a lot of stuff that it's good at!), but ultimately I've found that it's not the right tool as a hotkey daemon for a socket-based tiling window manager.
[1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi
[2]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/whkd
[3]: https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd
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The primary programming language of whkd is Rust.
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