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Re: Show HN: Nomouse

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Post by nhumrich »

bmpafa wrote: post #8
xchaotic wrote: post #5

Have you found any parts of the OS or your workflow that are really hard without the mouse? I can do keyboard in terminal and text editors, but browsers are so so and Windows RDP is where it all fails the worst for me...

have i got good news for you: https://vimium.github.io/

I use this (well, the equivalent for FF), and it's great, but it doesn't work for every site or button. There are a lot of js buttons that don't get link anchors when you press f. So navigating is still something not possible without a mouse.

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Post by xbryanx »

xchaotic wrote: post #5

Have you found any parts of the OS or your workflow that are really hard without the mouse? I can do keyboard in terminal and text editors, but browsers are so so and Windows RDP is where it all fails the worst for me...

Our tedious accounting/PO system operated via a VM connection to a Win 7 system from a Mac.

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Post by xrisk »

andreiglingeanu wrote: post #3
ajasmin wrote: post #2

I doesn't say but this is for the Mac.

Yeah, it does indeed. Would love to see a solution for reliably starting that thing at system startup. Also, would be nice to be able to pause it for a period of time.

https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Dar...

See @reboot

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Post by xbryanx »

andreiglingeanu wrote: post #3
ajasmin wrote: post #2

I doesn't say but this is for the Mac.

Yeah, it does indeed. Would love to see a solution for reliably starting that thing at system startup. Also, would be nice to be able to pause it for a period of time.

Launchd is your friend here. Good tutorial: http://www.launchd.info/

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#15

Post by tqkxzugoaupvwqr »

israrkhan wrote: post #10

My solution is not to connect a monitor to my dev-machine and use ssh/tmux to do most things. It also makes work-from-home easy, as I can loginto my devbox from anywhere. But then it depends on what type of work you are doing, and how you are testing it.

Do you use an IDE on the client (the machine you connect from) and only have sources on the dev machine, or do you work completely in the terminal?

Re: Show HN: Nomouse

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Post by Jerry2 »

After I discovered extensions/addons for vim-like control of browsers few years ago, I've completely changed how I browse the web. I rarely even use the mouse anymore. Only when I want to save an image or save a file (from a misconfigured server that doesn't auto-download) do I still use a mouse. For everything else, you simply don't need a mouse at all.

My favorites:

vimari - Safari port of vimium: https://guyht.github.io/vimari/

vimium for Chromium: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogba...

VimFX for FF: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimfx/

Re: Show HN: Nomouse

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Post by akio »

nhumrich wrote: post #11
bmpafa wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

have i got good news for you: https://vimium.github.io/

I use this (well, the equivalent for FF), and it's great, but it doesn't work for every site or button. There are a lot of js buttons that don't get link anchors when you press f. So navigating is still something not possible without a mouse.

I don't know about the Firefox version you're using, but Vimium on Chrome works with `onclick` buttons.

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#18

Post by hossbeast »

israrkhan wrote: post #10

My solution is not to connect a monitor to my dev-machine and use ssh/tmux to do most things. It also makes work-from-home easy, as I can loginto my devbox from anywhere. But then it depends on what type of work you are doing, and how you are testing it.

Do you use a browser (and presumably a mouse) for email, or are you doing that in the console with mutt or pine?

Re: Show HN: Nomouse

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Post by felipemesquita »

This screen dimming idea seems anoying just the right amount to discourage other kinds of behavior, like cheking emails in the morning or opening a twitter client during some predefined supposedly porductive time window.

Re: Show HN: Nomouse

#20

Post by nprescott »

This is a cute idea. One thing I notice, it cycles the brightness higher every 6.666 seconds regardless of where it began until it reaches 100%. I only notice because I rarely have the brightness at 100% and it was a little disconcerting watching it become more bright over time.

I'm now thinking of how you might make something similar for ratpoison[0]

[0]: http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/

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