Neverclick: Desktop application for performing mouse actions with your keyboard

thanks for the heads up, I have a keychron gathering dust at home, so I'll test this later on. favved the thread anyway, since I'm interested, but will wait for the macOS version.

Re: Neverclick: Desktop application for performing mouse actions with your keyboard

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Post by granra » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 10:50 AM UTC

This looks cool! How is the planned Linux support (the website says "Coming soon for Linux") suppose to work? X11 only? Wayland? Gnome only (or any other DE)?

Re: Neverclick: Desktop application for performing mouse actions with your keyboard

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Post by DarkIye » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 10:51 AM UTC

Nice, this is like Vimium link hints but for everything. So long carpal tunnel!

Re: Neverclick: Desktop application for performing mouse actions with your keyboard

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Post by deviation » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 10:58 AM UTC

My problem with these types of apps will always be that most software it interacts with will unfortunately be designed without accessibility in mind.

I've trialed a handful of these mouse-less programs before and I always run into the same hurdles.

E.g. where one or more of my apps have sliders which I can't interact with using clicks instead of drags (so I can't interact with it at all), or needing to click things like my MacOS dock, or even resize a window.

Re: Neverclick: Desktop application for performing mouse actions with your keyboard

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Post by andy55a » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 11:00 AM UTC

This is really nice, great job! I built something similar for myself on MacOS recently. Started off as a window manager then began adding keyboard navigation features as I was unhappy with other tools (vimium, shortcat etc).

Hint mode as a feature being able to click all active links on the screen is great and very useful.

Two features I've added recently that have made never using a mouse much more feasible:

1. Search mode - Search for any text on the page, jump to it and then use vim keybindings to select text from there and copy => I use this 20+ times a day

2. Scroll mode - Any scroll area on the page is highlighted with a hint, but when selected it clicks the scroll area and allows you to use keybindings like j/k/gg/G to scroll up and down. I loved this from vimium and wanted to everywhere

Feel free to steal those :)

https://github.com/andyhmltn/nflow

Re: Neverclick: Desktop application for performing mouse actions with your keyboard

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Post by squigz » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 11:04 AM UTC

granra wrote: post #3

squigz wrote: post #2

QMK-powered keyboards can do this out of the box

I mean, it can make mouse movements and clicks but you can't be suggesting it can do on-screen hints, which makes it a way better experience.

I'll admit I didn't look too closely at TFA :) But yeah, that part looks neat

Re: Neverclick: Desktop application for performing mouse actions with your keyboard

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Post by silon42 » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 11:06 AM UTC

deviation wrote: post #7

My problem with these types of apps will always be that most software it interacts with will unfortunately be designed without accessibility in mind. I've trialed a handful of these mouse-less programs before and I always run into the same hurdles. E.g. where one or more of my apps have sliders which I can't interact with using clicks instead of drags (so I can't interact with it at all), or needing to click things l…

What is needed is "Mouseless Friday" for UI designers/developers.