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A mouseless tale: trying for a keyboard-driven desktop

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Re: A mouseless tale: trying for a keyboard-driven desktop

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Vimium is absolutely life-changing and I can't believe I've been forced to browse the internet like a caveman for my entire life.

Loved vimium but in the end I went for tridactyl because it combines both vimium and firenvim while being more straightforward (just open a vim window to edit the text box) Also to be able to have a config file in the home to commit to my dotfiles repo is great.

Re: A mouseless tale: trying for a keyboard-driven desktop

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Had to use a Mac at a job last year. It wasn't used much so the mouse wasn't charged. Why oh why is the mouse unusable when it's charging!?

My Bose headphones also aren't usable while charging. Very frustrating. I don't care if there are technical reasons. It's just bad UX.

Same with my Sony headphones. Never understood the reasoning.

Re: A mouseless tale: trying for a keyboard-driven desktop

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

My Bose headphones also aren't usable while charging. Very frustrating. I don't care if there are technical reasons. It's just bad UX.

Same with my Sony headphones. Never understood the reasoning.

Allegedly, for the Mac mouse the reason is so that people can't use it permanently plugged in, because cables are ugly and against "the Apple philosophy".

Re: A mouseless tale: trying for a keyboard-driven desktop

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It's really humbling and everyone should do it every now and then. An old coworker coined "mouseless monday mornings" where we'd unplug our mice(?) until lunch to start each week. We all learned a lot about how to be more efficient in our IDE's, learned tons of useful OS and browser shortcuts, observed tons of accessibility flaws in our product, and all of that during the dullest hours of the week.

One is so stupid, to learn some "useful shorcuts" which are existing only until some megacorp is going to change anything in their software (OS, IDE, browser has almost none of them). I am a huge proponent of learning touchtyping, then vim and... nothing more.

Re: A mouseless tale: trying for a keyboard-driven desktop

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Surprised to see PaperWM instead something like i3 or dwm as those are at least for me the top tiling window managers. I haven't tried ratpoison but read that is a good choice as well. Perhaps PaperWM was chosen because of it fancier look compared to more minimalistic UI than i3 or dwm?

I suppose they just didn't want to abandon GNOME.

Re: A mouseless tale: trying for a keyboard-driven desktop

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post #28

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 differ…

I've used Komorebi in the past, it seems to be the better tiling option available in windows when I went looking. Thank you for your work!

Re: A mouseless tale: trying for a keyboard-driven desktop

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post #54

Interesting choice of window manager. Has anyone here used PaperWM and can comment on how its "scrollable" interface compares to more traditional tiling WMs like i3?

It’s awesome. I’ve switched to Niri which was inspired by Paper. When I use Gnome, I always install Paper. I never liked tiling WMs because I generally have a full height text editor, a full size web browser, and a handful of background terminals. This is cramped in a tiling arrangement, but works beautifully in a scrolling WM.

Re: A mouseless tale: trying for a keyboard-driven desktop

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post #52
post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My Bose headphones also aren't usable while charging. Very frustrating. I don't care if there are technical reasons. It's just bad UX.

Same with my Sony headphones. Never understood the reasoning.

My cordless beard trimmer doesn’t run when plugged in, so you have to wait for it to charge before using it. When getting ready in the morning, you can’t sit around for an hour waiting for it to charge enough to function.

It makes no sense.

Re: A mouseless tale: trying for a keyboard-driven desktop

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post #25

This is one of the things that pisses me off about MacOS. Every other majot OS out there at least offers a good failsafe keyboard navigation built in to each UI component. In a pinch, the keyboard is your friend, at least until your pointing device is back up. MacOS: lol, sorry, bluetooth settings require a pointing device to add a new one. Keyboard navigation? Sure. It worked up until this part, but we didn't bother…

The worst for me is being able to select the non-default option in an alert window. Sometimes CMD + 'the first letter of the word in the button' works, but that's like a 30% chance. How is there not a standard for that? I'd even accept the arrow keys + Enter at this point.

Often space cycles this, for some reason.
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