Comment by rawoke083600 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by rawoke083600 | Hacker News Reader

I recently switched my daily workflow(coding, writing etc) to a "keyboard driven methodology" as much as possible ! So far (about 3 months) it's been going great.

I'm running an ASUS ZenBook with Ubuntu 20.04 and:

-i3 (Seems everyone starts here for tiling managers)

-lightdm( weird issues with the default GDM3 and dual screens)

-Switched from "Dual Monitors" (laptop + 27") to one monitor, the 27", my laptop lid/display is closed. This was interesting to me, since now that I make better use of workspace and their shortcuts, I don't need more physical-real-estate. Especially with my neck issue. Can't turn my head too much right (car accident), I call it my Zoolander-Thang.

-Employed "workspaces" (virtual desktops ?) as follows:

--ws1 (Terminals)

--ws2 (Browser)

--ws3 (Comms) Skype,Gmail,WhatsApp

--ws4 (Code) VSCode

--ws6 (Files) Still in GUI land here... should look spend more time with something like nnn or ranger.

--ws7 (Gimp)

--ws8 (Geany) Scratchpad and misc. editor stuff

-Learnt most of the 'useful' keyboard shortcuts for the commonly used programs. VSCode, i3, Gimp

Less mouse, more KB :)

I worried about whether the time investment would be worth it when I was getting into tiling window managers (using chunkwm on Mac), but it has paid dividends and was totally worth it. The thing that helped me over the hump was setting a background image with the key commands for a little while, until it felt like second nature. A couple of years in now the key commands I’m pressing seem subconscious, almost like when entering a typo and looking and down at the keyboard and becoming disoriented. It’s weird.

Nice life hack. Settings the background image to a cheetsheet of commands that you want to learn. Love it. Thank you for the suggestion. :)

Don't forget a keyboard-driven navigation plugin for your browser, like vimium. I have a desktop PC and use my mouse maybe once or twice a day, mostly for JS-heavy crap (which also probably presents enormous problems for the blind folk).

Ahhh ! Haven't even thought about the browser-shortcuts ! Lol I know F5 basically :/ Thanks will def look into this.

I try to use the keyboard for everything but unfortunately I haven't found a proper plugin for modern browsers. I tried to like tridactyl on Firefox but there were too many rough edges and it was unreliable (not really their fault, mainly limitations of what webextensions can do). As a result it was frustrating to have your keyboard shortcuts not work right ~25% of the time because you had the wrong part of the browser focused or something like that.

vimium works okay-ish, or maybe I simply got used to it.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/

The main problem I have with it is it does not keep key combinations stable — if you press F → Esc → F → … (or Alt+F), it assigns different combinations for each link each time.

You could try Vim Vixen as an alternative: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vim-vixen/

Try SDDM, i recently switched from lightdm on arch.

It is themeable using qml

Will have a look :) - Thank you.

Zoolander couldn’t turn left, not right

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