Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows
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Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows
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Re: Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows
#2I was literally just thinking about the desire to have a mouseless keyboard solution yesterday.
Re: Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows
#3Wow, as cool as this is, it's kind of a shame that we need to say "use coords to show where the mouse should click" instead of designing interfaces that keep pointing-device-free users in mind.
Re: Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows
#4Wow, as cool as this is, it's kind of a shame that we need to say "use coords to show where the mouse should click" instead of designing interfaces that keep pointing-device-free users in mind.
With Windows in particular, you absolutely can navigate Windows + Office keyboard only. I do it every day.
Now, third party software, is always going to be all over the place. Stuff that was largely built on Win32 components works fine, but "modern" stylized applications rarely have strong support.
Re: Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows
#5Using closed source software to drive my OS doesn't sound that appealing to me.
Re: Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows
#6Using closed source software to drive my OS doesn't sound that appealing to me.
Then don't buy it. Not everything in the world needs to be made free just for you.
Re: Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows
#7Wow, as cool as this is, it's kind of a shame that we need to say "use coords to show where the mouse should click" instead of designing interfaces that keep pointing-device-free users in mind.
With Windows in particular, you absolutely can navigate Windows + Office keyboard only. I do it every day. Now, third party software, is always going to be all over the place. Stuff that was largely built on Win32 components works fine, but "modern" stylized applications rarely have strong support.
You’re right that lots of Windows apps were designed with Keyboard only workflows in mind. It’s a shame that MacOS has so many points where if you don’t have a mouse you’re out of luck.
There is one major improvement you can do on Mac, at least for menus:
Re: Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows
#8Vimium for the browser solves most of the mouse needs. I dont see it helping with drawings.
Did anyone notice the use of the mouse at the end?
Re: Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows
#9Opensource alternatives:
- https://github.com/moverest/wl-kbptr
- https://github.com/petoncle/mousemaster
- https://github.com/y3owk1n/neru
- https://github.com/mjrusso/scoot
- https://github.com/jbensmann/mouseless
- https://github.com/rvaiya/warpd (not really maintained anymore)
Re: Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows
#10Looks kinda similar to https://github.com/rvaiya/warpd/ , which is open source and free software. Always worked very well for me on Wayland, but seems to be working on Xorg and macOS as well.