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Look ma, no mouse: Vimium

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Re: Look ma, no mouse: Vimium

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Post by miles »

auslegung wrote: post #50

Does anyone know of a way to do this OS-wide, so I don’t have to use my mouse to navigate at all? Either macOS or Ubuntu/pop_os. I know most OSes have built in keyboard shortcuts, but Linux distros are often inconsistent from app to app, and besides I’m looking for something that will let me “click” anywhere in an OS without a mouse

Shortcat https://shortcatapp.com/

“Keep your hands on the keyboard and boost your productivity! Shortcat is a keyboard tool for Mac OS X that lets you "click" buttons and control your apps with a few keystrokes. Think of it as Spotlight for the user interface.”

Re: Look ma, no mouse: Vimium

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Post by drampelt »

auslegung wrote: post #50

Does anyone know of a way to do this OS-wide, so I don’t have to use my mouse to navigate at all? Either macOS or Ubuntu/pop_os. I know most OSes have built in keyboard shortcuts, but Linux distros are often inconsistent from app to app, and besides I’m looking for something that will let me “click” anywhere in an OS without a mouse

Vimac for macOS does clicking and scrolling within any app

https://vimacapp.com/

Re: Look ma, no mouse: Vimium

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Post by Reelin »

auslegung wrote: post #50

Does anyone know of a way to do this OS-wide, so I don’t have to use my mouse to navigate at all? Either macOS or Ubuntu/pop_os. I know most OSes have built in keyboard shortcuts, but Linux distros are often inconsistent from app to app, and besides I’m looking for something that will let me “click” anywhere in an OS without a mouse

If you mean specifically a utility to have the window manager or desktop environment send mouse events to applications based on keyboard input, then no I've never heard of such a thing. It certainly might exist, but I suspect that such an approach would be full of incompatibilities. Consider that Vimium works by (among other things) parsing the DOM and making changes to it in real time. What would that look like for a desktop application with a GUI backend that's effectively a black box?

For Linux, the obvious pragmatic answer is to use a tiling window manager (i3, awm, etc) combined with terminal based programs (since they are keyboard driven by default).

Alternatively, you might have some amount of luck configuring lots of keyboard shortcuts in your window manager. You'd have to pick your programs very carefully though since most GUIs just aren't that compatible with being driven by a keyboard.

Re: Look ma, no mouse: Vimium

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zoltar wrote: post #40

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Re: Look ma, no mouse: Vimium

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Post by octoberfranklin »

Unusable because the vi-mode keybindings aren't available until the page finishes loading.

Qutebrowser is far superior.

Mozilla STILL refuse to produce a "libfirefox" like Chromium does with the CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework). This is incredibly selfish of Mozilla, they insist on being the only ones who can produce a browser using their browser engine, forcing Tor Browser to devote massive resources to maintaining a long-lived fork instead of just building on libfirefox.

Re: Look ma, no mouse: Vimium

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Post by detaro »

octoberfranklin wrote: post #56

Unusable because the vi-mode keybindings aren't available until the page finishes loading. Qutebrowser is far superior. Mozilla STILL refuse to produce a "libfirefox" like Chromium does with the CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework). This is incredibly selfish of Mozilla, they insist on being the only ones who can produce a browser using their browser engine, forcing Tor Browser to devote massive resources to maintaining…

I'm fairly sure Mozilla wished they had a libfirefox (e.g. their mobile browsers suffer from not having that), but Firefox is badly designed to make one and they didn't want to invest the resources needed to do such a deep refactoring. Maybe one can be made from the new Android FF, which as far as I understand is a more separated out code base.
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