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by williamdclt 1259 days ago
I can't hit Fn keys reliably without looking. Instead I mapped switching to my common programs to `fn+h/j/k/l` and other closeby keys (firefox = fn+h, vscode = fn+j, etc). My right-hand fingers are already on hjkl anyway, it's much much faster for me :)
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Proper keyboards group in clusters F1–F4, F5–F8, F9–F12, with gaps between them. Unfortunately, this practice is regularly disregarded (even though uniformity is obviously a terrible idea), and particularly uncommon on laptop keyboards.
I probably still wouldn't be able to hit them accurately, I'm not a great typist :) fn+h/j/k/l isn't mapped to anything, these keys are much more accessible and switching windows is probably the thing I do most, so it seems to make sense to me