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TL;DR: Capslock is Hyper key when held (Escape when pressed). Then I have hyperkey sublayers to allow for having essentially infinite commands: Capslock + O ("Open") + S ("Slack"), Capslock + S ("System") + U = Volume Up, J = Volume Down, etc.
Although the only thing I really need Karabiner for is remapping caps lock to a custom-defined "hyper" key (something odd combination of right and left shift, alt, command, etc) that everything else can use.
BTT is great man, it just allows you to configure any shortcut for any app. But the one key I use the most is assigning “`” key as the back button. You keep your hand on that key while surfing web or any app that has a back navigation, it’s just so much better than clicking or remembering each apps back shortcut. If you really need to type ` then you assign fn-` it’s really rarely used
Better Touch Tool changed the way that I operate. Sequencing of keys can make you a productive monster:) Practically speaking, I remove the use of short keys that require to break my fingers every day.
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It's a sore-spot for sure. I've found that Rectangle[0] does a good enough job. [0] https://rectangleapp.com/
Does Rectangle has a shortcut to switch the focused window in a split screen?
The blog post mentions text expansion via Raycast, but macOS has had its own native text expansion for a long time now (I think maybe since 10.5? Would need to check) under System (Preferences|Settings) > Keyboard > Text Replacements, which comes with the added bonus of syncing to your other Macs and iDevices via iCloud. I've been using it for years and at least for my needs it works great. Not mentioned are the text…
Author here, I use the native macOS replacements as well, mostly because they sync with iOS and they save me a lot of typing on iPhone and iPad. But Raycast works differently in that: - it has dynamic replacements (see the video where I use ,td to type today's date for example) - can place cursor somewhere inside the replacement - makes it easy to add new snippets (Cmd-S on copied text) - is a lot faster in general a…
That single feature alone is worth the app to me.
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You can mimic that in part with yabai ( https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai ). Disabling SIP gets you instant Space switching and creating without animation just like Pop_OS. But you can get very far to an automated tiling WM and keyboard navigation even without disabling SIP.
Just because this often comes up; I don't want to disable SIP. However I'm very happy with yabai.
I came from i3 with 8 predefined windows, but the simplicity of rcmd is really amazing.
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It's a sore-spot for sure. I've found that Rectangle[0] does a good enough job. [0] https://rectangleapp.com/
Does Rectangle has a shortcut to switch the focused window in a split screen?
I recently purchased a MacBook, and while I'm thoroughly impressed with the hardware, I find the keyboard navigation in the desktop environment somewhat lacking in comparison to my previous experience. Having used Linux Pop OS for many years, I've grown accustomed to the intuitive and powerful tiling window manager and keyboard navigation shortcuts it offers. I'm struggling to find a comparable solution on the macOS…
In later versions they added keyboard access, but it still feels like it was done as a bare-minimum concession and not originally planned.