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The thing that always bothers me when I try polishing my hammerspoon config is that none of the available modifiers are dedicated to window management. On all
by philsnow 8y ago
The thing that always bothers me when I try polishing my hammerspoon config is that none of the available modifiers are dedicated to window management.
On all my linux systems, I have a separate Mod4 modifier that is exclusively used for key bindings that my window manager interprets.
On Mac, there's control, option/alt, and command, but various programs use various subsets of them, so none of them is available for me to completely commandeer.
Karabiner(-Elements) lets you convert a key to be a cmd-control-shift-option modifier, and I might just end up doing that, but whatever key you choose probably isn't going to be under my left thumb like my muscle memory wants.
For hammerspoon what I ended up doing is making modal keymaps, but modal keymaps are really different from how I handle it on my other systems, so it hasn't stuck yet.
- tom_ 8y agoI use Ctrl+Cmd+Alt+numpad keys for ShiftIt. If this conflicts with anything, I've never noticed. Who would be silly enough to choose such a combination for something anyway?
- saagarjha 8y agoI use Karabiner-Elements to rebind my Caps Lock key to "Super" (actually, F17).
- hibbelig 8y agoBut you can have the initial key show a notification that describes the possible keys to press next. Then if you forget a key combo, you can always look it up.