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Does anyone know of a way to do this OS-wide, so I don’t have to use my mouse to navigate at all? Either macOS or Ubuntu/pop_os. I know most OSes have built in
by auslegung 6y ago
Does anyone know of a way to do this OS-wide, so I don’t have to use my mouse to navigate at all? Either macOS or Ubuntu/pop_os. I know most OSes have built in keyboard shortcuts, but Linux distros are often inconsistent from app to app, and besides I’m looking for something that will let me “click” anywhere in an OS without a mouse
- miles 6y agoShortcat https://shortcatapp.com/ https://shortcatapp.com/ “Keep your hands on the keyboard and boost your productivity! Shortcat is a keyboard tool for Mac OS X that lets you "click" buttons and control your apps with a few keystrokes. Think of it as Spotlight for the user interface.”
- drampelt 6y agoVimac for macOS does clicking and scrolling within any app https://vimacapp.com/ https://vimacapp.com/
- Reelin 6y agoIf you mean specifically a utility to have the window manager or desktop environment send mouse events to applications based on keyboard input, then no I've never heard of such a thing. It certainly might exist, but I suspect that such an approach would be full of incompatibilities. Consider that Vimium works by (among other things) parsing the DOM and making changes to it in real time. What would that look like for a desktop application with a GUI backend that's effectively a black box? For Linux, the obvious pragmatic answer is to use a tiling window manager (i3, awm, etc) combined with terminal based programs (since they are keyboard driven by default). Alternatively, you might have some amount of luck configuring lots of keyboard shortcuts in your window manager. You'd have to pick your programs very carefully though since most GUIs just aren't that compatible with being driven by a keyboard.