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Will check out keyd and wtype, thank you for the pointers! If you don't mind, could you go into a little more detail on your journey? What do you use it for? Wh
by ahaferburg 4mo ago
Will check out keyd and wtype, thank you for the pointers! If you don't mind, could you go into a little more detail on your journey? What do you use it for? What roadblocks did you encounter that made you try out different tools?
On Windows I was a happy Autohotkey user. For the same functionality I'm using kmonad+bash+ydotool+systemd now. I use it to make CapsLock a modifier key. Mostly for navigation, e. g. Caps+HJKL for arrow keys, Caps+E/R for Ctrl+🡰/🡲, i. e. jump to the next/prev word. Also moved some special keys closer to the home row, e. g. Caps+F=Backspace, Caps+D=Delete, Caps+V=Enter.
I do not like kmonad at all. The configuration language seems poorly designed, and OS integration is non-existent. Last week I spent about 90 minutes with Copilot trying to get the kmonad script to autostart. And it still doesn't work properly. I have a macro that types the current date, and I just couldn't get it to work when running as a systemd service. Umlauts also don't seem to be working anymore.