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Have you found any parts of the OS or your workflow that are really hard without the mouse? I can do keyboard in terminal and text editors, but browsers are so

Have you found any parts of the OS or your workflow that are really hard without the mouse? I can do keyboard in terminal and text editors, but browsers are so so and Windows RDP is where it all fails the worst for me...

bmpafa 10y ago
have i got good news for you: https://vimium.github.io/ https://vimium.github.io/
- nhumrich 10y ago
  I use this (well, the equivalent for FF), and it's great, but it doesn't work for every site or button. There are a lot of js buttons that don't get link anchors when you press f. So navigating is still something not possible without a mouse.
  - akio 10y ago
    I don't know about the Firefox version you're using, but Vimium on Chrome works with `onclick` buttons.
xbryanx 10y ago
Our tedious accounting/PO system operated via a VM connection to a Win 7 system from a Mac.
leblancfg 10y ago
Tried this for quite some time now. The one part I find 100x more natural to do with the mouse is handling files and folders. There's nothing quite like visually doing those things, and no worthwhile shell practice can quite compare.
yjftsjthsd-h 10y ago
I cheat :) On GNU/Linux (well, X11) I use keynav, a nice little utility that lets you drive the cursor by keyboard. It's often a little clunkier than actual mouse, but you don't have to take your hands off the keyboard and it covers the "I only need to click that one button that somehow isn't possible to hit from the keyboard."
- microcolonel 10y ago
  Do I need a compositor for the keynav grid to show up? I've tried prettymuch all the versions off the AUR and none of them show anything.
  - yjftsjthsd-h 10y ago
    Strange. I don't think I have a compositor running (i3 wm, not much graphical fluff). Would you mind trying https://github.com/yjftsjthsd-g/keynav https://github.com/yjftsjthsd-g/keynav and if that doesn't work open an issue? (That's "my" fork, albeit with basically no code from me; I discovered that a number of folks were running separate forks and built a version merging as many as I reasonably could. I think one of them changes the way it renders onscreen and so may have better luck.)

bmpafa 10y ago

have i got good news for you: https://vimium.github.io/ https://vimium.github.io/

nhumrich 10y ago
I use this (well, the equivalent for FF), and it's great, but it doesn't work for every site or button. There are a lot of js buttons that don't get link anchors when you press f. So navigating is still something not possible without a mouse.
- akio 10y ago
  I don't know about the Firefox version you're using, but Vimium on Chrome works with `onclick` buttons.

xbryanx 10y ago

Our tedious accounting/PO system operated via a VM connection to a Win 7 system from a Mac.

leblancfg 10y ago

Tried this for quite some time now. The one part I find 100x more natural to do with the mouse is handling files and folders. There's nothing quite like visually doing those things, and no worthwhile shell practice can quite compare.

yjftsjthsd-h 10y ago

I cheat :) On GNU/Linux (well, X11) I use keynav, a nice little utility that lets you drive the cursor by keyboard. It's often a little clunkier than actual mouse, but you don't have to take your hands off the keyboard and it covers the "I only need to click that one button that somehow isn't possible to hit from the keyboard."

microcolonel 10y ago
Do I need a compositor for the keynav grid to show up? I've tried prettymuch all the versions off the AUR and none of them show anything.
- yjftsjthsd-h 10y ago
  Strange. I don't think I have a compositor running (i3 wm, not much graphical fluff). Would you mind trying https://github.com/yjftsjthsd-g/keynav https://github.com/yjftsjthsd-g/keynav and if that doesn't work open an issue? (That's "my" fork, albeit with basically no code from me; I discovered that a number of folks were running separate forks and built a version merging as many as I reasonably could. I think one of them changes the way it renders onscreen and so may have better luck.)