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Re: Show HN: Keynavish – Control the mouse with the keyboard (Windows)

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hm that is good to know! Haven't used KDE for a while though but maybe it's time to take it for a spin again. Ah it seems that there is this program called keynav. Something I guess I could have guessed. For browsers I love to use these pentadactyl/vimium/... extensions. Would there be anything similar for reguar desktop applications. I get that it would be a huge effort to support all the different toolkits though.

> Ah it seems that there is this program called keynav. Yep, I wrote this as a direct clone of the original keynav, so I can use the same config file on both operating systems. > For browsers I love to use these pentadactyl/vimium/... extensions. Would there be anything similar for reguar desktop applications. I get that it would be a huge effort to support all the different toolkits though. You can bind arbitrary ke…

Nice of you to keep the same format as the original.

Unfortunately keynav doesn't seem to be working all that well in Ubuntu 20.20, I am a bit interested in fixing this somehow.

The LD_PRELOAD approach might be a good idea actually.

I do have some further ideas on how to do this and some practical use cases as well.

Re: Show HN: Keynavish – Control the mouse with the keyboard (Windows)

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> Ah it seems that there is this program called keynav. Yep, I wrote this as a direct clone of the original keynav, so I can use the same config file on both operating systems. > For browsers I love to use these pentadactyl/vimium/... extensions. Would there be anything similar for reguar desktop applications. I get that it would be a huge effort to support all the different toolkits though. You can bind arbitrary ke…

Nice of you to keep the same format as the original. Unfortunately keynav doesn't seem to be working all that well in Ubuntu 20.20, I am a bit interested in fixing this somehow. The LD_PRELOAD approach might be a good idea actually. I do have some further ideas on how to do this and some practical use cases as well.

> Unfortunately keynav doesn't seem to be working all that well in Ubuntu 20.20, I am a bit interested in fixing this somehow.

I assume you mean Ubuntu 20.10? I tried it and it works fine for me in an Ubuntu 20.10 VM. Are you using Wayland perhaps?

> I do have some further ideas on how to do this and some practical use cases as well.

Feel free to contact me if you want to discuss it, could be a fun project. My contact info is on https://lesderid.net.

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