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I'd enjoy trying some of these alternative keyboards, but I'm addicted to TrackPoint. Even for my desktop, I bought a "looks like just like my laptop" ThinkPad
by stephen 11y ago
I'd enjoy trying some of these alternative keyboards, but I'm addicted to TrackPoint.
Even for my desktop, I bought a "looks like just like my laptop" ThinkPad USB keyboard with a TrackPoint stick on it.
FWIW, I use vi bindings in everything I can, i3wm so I'm not wasting time dragging windows around, etc., but pragmatically I still use the mouse a lot, and it's too bad that (AFAIK?) none of these prototype/tricked out keyboards address the "okay now lift up your hand and move it 6" over to grab the mouse".
(I know TrackPoint is likely patented, but technically a few other vendors have had similar sticks over the years; maybe they had to license it? Dunno.)
- compactmani 11y agoKeyboards don't try to emulate mouse function, but the way that you use the computer can indeed substitute the need for a mouse. Personally (also an i3wm user), tmux and vim browser plugins makes touching a mouse a rare event in my life.
- ftio 11y agoWe share the same goal, but I'm not a fan of TrackPoint. Moved from a side-by-side monitor setup (laptop + external display) with external keyboard and mouse to an over-under configuration with my external (main) display elevated to eye level and my laptop, which I use primarily for its keyboard and trackpad (less for its display), on the desk. Using the trackpad has completely alleviated the shoulder pain I used to feel when I was using an external mouse. When I switched, I worried that I'd miss my full numeric keypad. I do not.
- dimatura 11y agoI also love the thinkpad trackpoint, and I got one of the keyboards as well. But I can't deal with the control/fn key swap; I swap it in my laptop's bios, but can't do it on the keyboard. And I use ratpoison with vim bindings on everything :)