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They used to be discoverable with mnemonics (underlined letters) but those have been dead nearly thirty years…
these still exist on windows though? you just hold alt
Trackpoints are the best for don't-look-down.
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> To the point of making it harder to find a job Fwiw... (1) Lenovo sells compact keyboards with trackpoint. USB and bluetooth. There are mouse buttons below Space, but it cuts off there, with no pad. I once taped a kludgy bare usb pad to one, which was ok, but the extra couple of cm separation was annoying. I considered grinding out some of the case, but don't recall if that turned out plausible. (2) Lenovo has tabl…
> (1) Lenovo sells compact keyboards with trackpoint Where can I get it? They stopped selling them around 2 years ago AFAIK. I have a few of them, but they are not very durable, so used ones are probably not a good option. Only alternative I know of is https://tex.com.tw
Ouch. Thanks for the catch.
On ebay just now, there's someone claiming they have "more than 10 available".
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Nah, this is a very good point; I've seen things similar to this in the past and it's a cool idea -- but "subscription modeling" every little tool is not a good path to keep going down. Free and open source is important and it's perfectly fine to be critical here.
Demanding everything be free and open source is important if you don't want independent developers to be able to make a living, and instead wish to create a world where the vast majority of software is controlled by big tech, who are the benefactors of "free" software. The less you're willing to pay people making good software, the more territory predatory ad/tracking-fueled "free" software gets. The more territory y…
I wish there'd be readily available keyboards/pads where one could just use the surface (key surfaces) as the touchpad when fingers brush across on them softly.
The author used a BlackBerry trackpad. In his blogpost he showed that it can be mounted on top of a keycap. I believe that you can 3d print a special keycap integrate directly with the trackpad.
I prefer ShortCat's model: https://shortcat.app/ Similar to Vimium, but for the whole OS. Apparently Homerow is similar, judging from comments I'm seeing here. I really wish I knew an equivalent for Linux. I might even leave Gnome behind if a different DE has a good model for this.
Have you tried Ratpoison? It's got a bunch of features to manipulate the rat with the keyboard.
Cagebreak is like ratpoison for Wayland. (I haven't tried it.)
I suspect awesomewm might be a good candidate too. I messed around with trying to make it more ratpoisony. The results were pretty good.