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> Under Linux it's entirely trivial to make a different glyph appear on the screen when you press a particular button or combination of buttons. I'm assuming y

> Under Linux it's entirely trivial to make a different glyph appear on the screen when you press a particular button or combination of buttons. I'm assuming you're yanking everyone's chain, because suggesting that having to customize standard keyboard layouts just to be able to write code in a programming language is simply absurd.

michaelmrose 7y ago
One can in place run xmodmap to make a single key change or run it on a list of changes to be made saved in a file.
- geofft 7y ago
  That's about X, not "Linux." How do you do that on a Chromebook? How do you do that on a text-mode console? How do you do that on Wayland? How do you do that over SSH from ConnectBot on Android?
  - michaelmrose 7y ago
    Well for starters we are talking about developers not grandma on her chromebook. I guess if you are a developer and your choice of tool to develop software is a Chromebook, android device, or text console then step one would be to examine that questionable choice. If you are using Wayland I would suggest you figure out if wayland adds value to your workflow. If you use an environment that depends on wayland you would just have to accept that its less mature and designed at heart by people who neither value user configuration nor power users. As such its a bit harder but certainly not impossible and most likely involves creating a custom keyboard layout. It seems likely that someone will eventually figure out how to do xmodmap for wayland but in the meanwhile perhaps the 15 minuted required will be less onerous than the effort required to learn a new language.
    - geofft 7y ago
      > I guess if you are a developer and your choice of tool to develop software is a Chromebook, android device, or text console then step one would be to examine that questionable choice. Wow! This is what I do, personally. So why don't you start by questioning the choice, if it's so "questionable"? What do you have against it? And are you claiming you're a better developer than I am? Seems quite unlikely.
      - michaelmrose 7y ago
        You could be and probably are a better developer than I an amateur while opting to use a worse tool.
        geofft 7y ago
        You haven't defended your claim that any of these tools are worse. I use them because they're better tools.
        michaelmrose 7y ago
        Please explain why you would want a pixelbook instead of say a Lenovo P71 and why you would in any universe want to code on something running android.

michaelmrose 7y ago

One can in place run xmodmap to make a single key change or run it on a list of changes to be made saved in a file.

geofft 7y ago
That's about X, not "Linux." How do you do that on a Chromebook? How do you do that on a text-mode console? How do you do that on Wayland? How do you do that over SSH from ConnectBot on Android?
- michaelmrose 7y ago
  Well for starters we are talking about developers not grandma on her chromebook. I guess if you are a developer and your choice of tool to develop software is a Chromebook, android device, or text console then step one would be to examine that questionable choice. If you are using Wayland I would suggest you figure out if wayland adds value to your workflow. If you use an environment that depends on wayland you would just have to accept that its less mature and designed at heart by people who neither value user configuration nor power users. As such its a bit harder but certainly not impossible and most likely involves creating a custom keyboard layout. It seems likely that someone will eventually figure out how to do xmodmap for wayland but in the meanwhile perhaps the 15 minuted required will be less onerous than the effort required to learn a new language.
  - geofft 7y ago
    > I guess if you are a developer and your choice of tool to develop software is a Chromebook, android device, or text console then step one would be to examine that questionable choice. Wow! This is what I do, personally. So why don't you start by questioning the choice, if it's so "questionable"? What do you have against it? And are you claiming you're a better developer than I am? Seems quite unlikely.
    - michaelmrose 7y ago
      You could be and probably are a better developer than I an amateur while opting to use a worse tool.
      - geofft 7y ago
        You haven't defended your claim that any of these tools are worse. I use them because they're better tools.
        michaelmrose 7y ago
        Please explain why you would want a pixelbook instead of say a Lenovo P71 and why you would in any universe want to code on something running android.