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Exterminate your desk: How to remove your mouse

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Re: Exterminate your desk: How to remove your mouse

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Post by jamespullar »

zokier wrote: post #15

Web is the achilles heel for mouseless environment. And with the rise of browser webgpu based UIs, trying to work around the issue with extensions is increasingly futile. Mousekeys can work as a crutch, but I doubt their convenience for anything but last resort use.

I'm an avid user of Tridactyl for Firefox. It does have some issues with complex UIs, but for the most part is very functional. Using many common vim motions for navigation and interacting with links is great, especially when I'm working undocked with my laptop.

Re: Exterminate your desk: How to remove your mouse

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Post by korse »

Nice UHK. I've had one for years and don't use a mouse anymore either (on my bench-top computers). I have it hooked into a kvm switch controlling a handful of *nix machines. I still use a mouse on my windows gaming PC for reasons.

Interestingly enough, I ditched the touchpoint add-on too, as it really wasn't getting any use.

I'd really recommend the UHK to people who don't mind the price and want the benefits of custom keyboards without having to build on from scratch. I'm a hardware guy but have all sorts of other things I'd rather do than assemble a keyboard over a weekend. Delivery was hella slow though...

Re: Exterminate your desk: How to remove your mouse

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Post by bluGill »

> but takes more time than you think, and definitely slows me down.

Are you sure? I mean have you done a real test with an independent observer using a stopwatch? Back in the 1980s Apple did run those tests and were able to setup many situations where an experience keyboard user was still faster with a mouse - but they all claimed to be faster with the keyboard. Now to some extent they were gaming the tests (not all situations where realistic), but enough were that we can confidently say that the mouse often is faster even when it feels slower.

Re: Exterminate your desk: How to remove your mouse

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Post by rijoja »

jamespullar wrote: post #31
zokier wrote: post #15

Web is the achilles heel for mouseless environment. And with the rise of browser webgpu based UIs, trying to work around the issue with extensions is increasingly futile. Mousekeys can work as a crutch, but I doubt their convenience for anything but last resort use.

I'm an avid user of Tridactyl for Firefox. It does have some issues with complex UIs, but for the most part is very functional. Using many common vim motions for navigation and interacting with links is great, especially when I'm working undocked with my laptop.

Vimium exists for chrome, as well.

Re: Exterminate your desk: How to remove your mouse

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Post by korse »

gtirloni wrote: post #29

I want to experiment with a tablet and pen to replace the mouse. My arm hurts too much with the mouse currently. Anyone have experience with that?

I tried this for a few years in a work environment. Wacom tablet with a OpenSuse box from which I did a whole lot of work in the terminal and via RDP.

It was really nice, however the pen was a bust for me. It ended up being a really large multi-touch/gesture surface and the pen got lost somewhere along the way. Never replaced it and never looked back, other than being a bit bothered that I don't know where it went.

Re: Exterminate your desk: How to remove your mouse

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Post by wanderingstan »

> Moving your hand from the keyboard to the mouse and back, is … a large cause of RSI

Citation needed.

When I had RSI the doctor noted that it was only in my non-mouse left hand. They said the moving of my hand between mouse and keyboard provided a relief for my hand, and recommended I move my non-mouse hand away from the keyboard more often.

Re: Exterminate your desk: How to remove your mouse

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Post by xupybd »

I've played this game before. It's great if you never change what you're doing. If you get a new project that requires a new IDE or VM solution you spend hours setting things up again. The mouse is more flexible and better suited to getting work done.

This seems relevant. https://xkcd.com/1205/

Re: Exterminate your desk: How to remove your mouse

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Post by bgoated01 »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #11

> I have a designated key on my keyboard to invoke Shortcat. This let’s me “click” on anything on the screen (or in any menus, visible or not). Oh, that's sweet. Anyone know of a version that would work in a Linux-based system?

Shortcat uses accessibility to provide this feature. Unfortunately the current state of Linux accessibility support is insufficient for this type of thing, from what I understand.
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