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All the other brands went along (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 days ago by blibla@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago (77 children)

I hated when mice became the primary interface to computers, and I still do.

[–] EatATaco@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago (73 children)

Is this for real?

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (66 children)

Even for like 20 years after mousing became the primary interface, you could still navigate much faster using keyboard shortcuts / accelerator keys. Application designers no longer consider that feature. Now you are obliged to constantly take your fingers off home position, find the mouse, move it 3cm, aim it carefully, click, and move your hand back to home position, an operation taking a couple of seconds or more, when the equivalent keyboard commands could have been issued in a couple hundred milliseconds.

[–] abofim@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

So I see you clearly haven't heard of i3, sway or hyperland ...

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I've used ion, ratpoison, i3, sawfish, and other tiling window managers for fifteen or more years, all totaled up. There is a great deal of pressure to use a modern desktop environment and it's a lot of work maintaining my janky bespoke desktop environment functions necessary for a few critical applications. I use KDE's tiling features and keyboard shortcuts, but it's a double edged sword because I have to disable all window manager bindings in (for example) Blender and emacs to avoid shadowing important features. Actually, I have re-implemented a lot of my custom KDE shortcuts as emacs bindings as well, so they still work when emacs has the focus. Here's one:

(cl-flet ((switch-to (name)
	    (lambda ()
	      (interactive)
	      (shell-command (concat "wmctrl -a " name)))))
  (global-set-key (kbd "s-1") (switch-to "librewolf"))
  (global-set-key (kbd "s-2") (switch-to "konsole"))
  (global-set-key (kbd "s-3") (switch-to "signal"))
  (global-set-key (kbd "s-4") (switch-to "darktable"))
  (global-set-key (kbd "s-5") (switch-to "emacs")))

[–] Shareni@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For my wm+Emacs work, I unified the shortcuts by calling a separate go bin that checks if the active window is Emacs or not. If it is, it sends the command to the Emacs Daemon. If it's not it sends the command to i3. For directional commands like move focus, first check it there's an Emacs window to that side, if not send the command to i3.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The things we have to go through just to meet basic needs.

How are you redirecting all input through your custom exec? Is that an i3 feature?

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

why have I made that anonymous function interactive??

Edit: Oh I think anything you bind to a key has to be interactive.

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