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I went through much of the same process in the past week, as I started at a new job where I was not easily able to use linux. I'm a HHKB pro 2 user also - alth
by krenoten 13y ago
I went through much of the same process in the past week, as I started at a new job where I was not easily able to use linux. I'm a HHKB pro 2 user also - although I actually have really grown to enjoy the placement of the arrow keys and not having to physically move my hand over to use a separate set of specialized keys. As a user of the colemak keyboard layout, I've grown accustomed to rarely needing to stray far from the home row, and this keyboard helps me take the same economy of motion to the next level. For software, I arrived at KeyRemap4MacBook at the recommendation of the colemak website, and between that and standard mountain lion system preference remaps of where command is mapped to etc... (caps lock -> control on the actual laptop keyboard is MANDATORY) I'm finally starting to enjoy using osx as a tool for interacting with text editors.
But - I was fiercely at war with manual placement of windows and the horrendous methods I knew of for changing windows. I'm an xmonad user, and really just wanted something that would put windows exactly where I wanted them and to swap focus easily enough. I found slate, and although it may take a few minutes to write a conf that you're happy with I was able to replicate the major functionality that I wanted.
Ahh... ok now I can finally get stuff done without constant vacations to the mouse, and I can start to notice some of OSX's visual niceties.
- weaksauce 13y agoCare to post your slate config?
- krenoten 13y agoSure - it's not something I would call polished but it gets the job done for now - http://hastebin.com/hofejobumu.mel http://hastebin.com/hofejobumu.mel It only looks good for me when I'm plugged into a big thunderbolt display. The rightmost window intentionally goes off the screen boundary so that it can maintain its size and not cause any kinds of resizing artifacts when switching it in and out of the wider center pane. The way I'm arranging center panes and switching focus to them is definitely a hack, and doesn't work when there are other windows open on the screen.
- autodidakto 13y agoCheck out xnomad. It seems to me the closest imitation to Xmonad, and doesn't need messing with a config to get working (that is, comes with good default keycommands and limited layouts). It's not in Haskell, but the authors experimental ObjC-based-but-many-times-cleaner-and-cooler language. Install tranquil, and then I recommend using the .app bundle I made on my fork (https://github.com/JasonJAyalaP/xnomad/raw/master/xnomad.app.zip https://github.com/JasonJAyalaP/xnomad/raw/master/xnomad.app...). I added a nice icon and made it much simpler to quit and launch it.