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I built one of these after reading this. It was well worth the time and making a friend do the soldering :D I have hundreds of keyboard shortcuts memorised for

I built one of these after reading this. It was well worth the time and making a friend do the soldering :D I have hundreds of keyboard shortcuts memorised for things, and I use a QMK programmable Moonlander keyboard with even more. The real advantage of this is that it also is something my family can easily use.

gbrindisi 4y ago
can you expand? I also have a moonlander and looking for inspiration
- zwayhowder 4y ago
  I run i3, so practically everything I do is driven by keyboard shortcuts. On Windows I use AutoHotKey to achieve a similar level of support when I have to use it. To avoid collisions I'll often bind a single key to something like "Control + Shift + Alt + Meta + F14". No application I'm aware of goes hirer than F12 and most keyboard combos require a max of 3 keys. By binding such a ridiculous number of keys to one key I don't have to contort my hand too much and I can still always find the mute key. Often the key will trigger a script, and the script will use information such as the active window to understand the exact output. (If Zoom mute is Space, if Teams it is Ctrl+Shift+M because of course it is, if Chime forget about Mute just play a recording of me telling our account rep at AWS this is why I won't work there). This is a better write up than I can do. https://hackaday.io/project/177896-remutermcs https://hackaday.io/project/177896-remutermcs
Oxidation 4y ago
> The real advantage of this is that it also is something my family can easily use. The opposite of this is why I like i3. Want to use my computer? Good luck: there's no start button and you'll have to guess the chord to open rofi.
- zwayhowder 4y ago
  Snap. I also use i3 and rofi. I can't imagine life without them. But the desk controller I built turns off lights and monitors, mutes audio when I forget to and more.

gbrindisi 4y ago

can you expand? I also have a moonlander and looking for inspiration

zwayhowder 4y ago
I run i3, so practically everything I do is driven by keyboard shortcuts. On Windows I use AutoHotKey to achieve a similar level of support when I have to use it. To avoid collisions I'll often bind a single key to something like "Control + Shift + Alt + Meta + F14". No application I'm aware of goes hirer than F12 and most keyboard combos require a max of 3 keys. By binding such a ridiculous number of keys to one key I don't have to contort my hand too much and I can still always find the mute key. Often the key will trigger a script, and the script will use information such as the active window to understand the exact output. (If Zoom mute is Space, if Teams it is Ctrl+Shift+M because of course it is, if Chime forget about Mute just play a recording of me telling our account rep at AWS this is why I won't work there). This is a better write up than I can do. https://hackaday.io/project/177896-remutermcs https://hackaday.io/project/177896-remutermcs

Oxidation 4y ago

> The real advantage of this is that it also is something my family can easily use. The opposite of this is why I like i3. Want to use my computer? Good luck: there's no start button and you'll have to guess the chord to open rofi.

zwayhowder 4y ago
Snap. I also use i3 and rofi. I can't imagine life without them. But the desk controller I built turns off lights and monitors, mutes audio when I forget to and more.