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Also Gnome is keyboard driven to a large degree. I used dwm/dmenu for quite a time then went back to the default DE which was Gnome and it felt similar (small s

Also Gnome is keyboard driven to a large degree. I used dwm/dmenu for quite a time then went back to the default DE which was Gnome and it felt similar (small screen by the way so not too many tiled windows in dwm)

Lio 8y ago
Yes that’s what attracts me to Gnome too. The keyboard shortcuts are enough for me to be productive without being fully tile based. If I could just get terminal shortcuts like ctrl-w for delete word or Ctrl-m for return to work in Firefox text fields it would be perfect for me.
- chungy 8y ago
  Open Tweaks, "Keyboard & Mouse" tab, enable Emacs Input. Now you get Ctrl-W in text fields and other shortcuts from Emacs. Doesn't quite work in Firefox though, which has a lot of conflicting shortcuts.
  - Lio 8y ago
    I have done exactly that... except it doesn’t work in Firefox, as you mentioned. There Ctrl-w always closes tabs, except in pinned tabs when it jumps to another tab without closing. It does work as expected in Chrom(e|ium) and most other apps. In Chrome you can still close tabs with ctrl-w, you just have tab out of a text box first.
- jhasse 8y ago
  Ctrl+Backspace is delete word.
  - Lio 8y ago
    I’m aware of that but I don’t really like it. I’d much prefer the shorter movement of Ctrl-w. It puts less stress on my right wrist, which suffers RSI a bit and is consistent with terminals on every (unix-like) OS. On macOS I get this behaviour via Karabiner Elements; on Gnome I mostly get it via Tweaks. Except in Firefox, as mentioned, where I put up with ctrl-backspace and curse.