A use of Vim keybindings you might not have expected!
A use of Vim keybindings you might not have expected!
I am still in the process of ironing out how I want my control scheme, but when looking for a web browser to run in Gaming Mode on my Steam Deck that worked well (Firefox was being funky when run in Gaming Mode/Big Picture) I experimented a little bit with Qutebrowser. https://qutebrowser.org/doc/qu...
I was looking for a good generalist set of keybindings for my Steam Deck's onboard controls that bound all the letter keys and also the necessary commands to navigate web pages and manipulate files. There isn't any obvious layout to bind all the gamepad buttons, joysticks and touchpads to letter keys and keyboard commands/command chords, and further it feels like whatever solution you came up with would be impossible to memorize anyways.
Kind of a silly endeavor perhaps, but... touchscreen keyboards take up wayyyyy too much screen real estate on the Steam Deck, and further the pop up software keyboard sometimes doesn't behave right with software that isn't expecting a pop up touchscreen keyboard (i.e., not like a mobile app designed to handle one).
Then I randomly thought about Qutebrowser and vim keybindings... and I had an evil idea.....
I want to try using this with neovim as well, and I thought y'all might get a kick out of it lol!
edit errr, oooff I don't know how to get lemmy not to dump the text from my linked post completely unformated into this post
Qutebrowser is bad ass. I don't know how I lived without it before.
Check out some of my qutebrowser userscripts, which aren't the same thing as greasemonkey scripts, my info is in my profile you should be able to find them.
4It’s great on my Laptop where I use Hyprland and basically no mouse. Here on My desktop with labwc I prefer using my mouse and Firefox.
2Yeah I used to be intimidated by the tiling no mouse thing. Then I took the dive, once I got the hang of it I can't go back. Operating my system with one finger is just too tedious. With keyboard oriented and tiling it feels like operating my system with my mind via telepathy. I ran labwc for about 5 minutes before I logged out and went back to my sway environment.
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I am gonna have to check those out!
2I particularly love and couldn't live without tab-manager, it's like onetab in Firefox or chrome, I can have unlimited sets of bookmarks, collapse everything down to one tab for each project I have going, it's one of my favorite pieces of software which makes me very happy with myself that I'm the one that built it. Looking through a bunch of userscripts that people made, I don't think there's a single one out there that comprehensively transforms the way you'd use qutebrowser the way that one does. I'm pretty sure The-Compiler uses it, he told me it inspired him to change the way sessions are managed in a future release.
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As someone that has also spent an unnecessary amount of time doing things like setting up developer envs, ricing and encryption on the steam deck I appreciate this post 👍
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