[cncjchsue7]

We gonna get support for keys that don't exist on any modern keyboards, don't worry though you can remap them or bind them to change mplicated macro layers in your expensive mechanical keyboards.

Do all that and you won't need those two lines of xinit.rc

[cryptonector]

Has no one noticed that ctrl-Ins/shift-Ins are almost universal, and they work in Windows and on Linux?

[swiftcoder]

Ins just doesn't exist on a lot of laptop keyboards, which kind of limits adoption.

[trinix912]

Even when the Ins and Del are there, they're at the far right top of the keyboard, which requires moving the hand to reach them every time.

It used to be less of a hassle when those shortcuts first appeared (with IBM CUA), as Ins/Del were just slightly above the arrow keys that you'd use to select the text prior to copying/cutting it anyways.

[amadeuspagel]

Isn't it healthier to use keyboard shortcuts where the modifier key and the modified key use different hands?

[cryptonector]

Yes, but GP didn't imply that they would hit ctlr-Ins/shift-Ins with the right hand. GP complained that the right hand has to move a fair bit to reach Ins.

[cryptonector]

On my smaller keyboards Ins is never far from anywhere :)

But also, I use sticky keys (the accessibility feature), so even on my larger keyboard I don't find moving my hand to reach the Ins key to be a problem. If I still had the real bad habit of long ago of using ulnar deviations to hit multiple keys together though, then the Ins key would probably hurt my hands, but then back then all typing hurt my hands so...

[cryptonector]

It exists on every laptop I've had in the past decade, and on every keyboard I've ever owned. (I'm just not a Mac user.)