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by rijoja 1962 days ago
Nice, what alternatives are there for linux here. Or rather what do people here prefer?
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aruggirello 1962 days ago
On KDE you can choose to control the mouse with the numeric keypad under accessibility settings - no need for external apps. BTW we also have KDE Connect, where you can control your mouse with your smartphone too.
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rijoja 1962 days ago
hm that is good to know! Haven't used KDE for a while though but maybe it's time to take it for a spin again.

Ah it seems that there is this program called keynav. Something I guess I could have guessed.

For browsers I love to use these pentadactyl/vimium/... extensions. Would there be anything similar for reguar desktop applications. I get that it would be a huge effort to support all the different toolkits though.

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lesderid 1962 days ago
> Ah it seems that there is this program called keynav.

Yep, I wrote this as a direct clone of the original keynav, so I can use the same config file on both operating systems.

> For browsers I love to use these pentadactyl/vimium/... extensions. Would there be anything similar for reguar desktop applications. I get that it would be a huge effort to support all the different toolkits though.

You can bind arbitrary keys to control the grid, and the default bindings are vim-like, but it only goes down to the window level. Interesting idea though, probably doable with LD_PRELOAD stuff.

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rijoja 1962 days ago
Nice of you to keep the same format as the original.

Unfortunately keynav doesn't seem to be working all that well in Ubuntu 20.20, I am a bit interested in fixing this somehow.

The LD_PRELOAD approach might be a good idea actually.

I do have some further ideas on how to do this and some practical use cases as well.

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lesderid 1961 days ago
> Unfortunately keynav doesn't seem to be working all that well in Ubuntu 20.20, I am a bit interested in fixing this somehow.

I assume you mean Ubuntu 20.10? I tried it and it works fine for me in an Ubuntu 20.10 VM. Are you using Wayland perhaps?

> I do have some further ideas on how to do this and some practical use cases as well.

Feel free to contact me if you want to discuss it, could be a fun project. My contact info is on https://lesderid.net.

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acct776 1962 days ago
Can anyone comment on real world usage of KDE Connect after the changes to the Android permission structure that caused/(is causing?) them some turmoil?
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