Title. Basically, “if a street fighter gamer and a linux tryhard had a baby” where a combination of keys is issued to run a command/script rather than a single or a simultaneous stroke of two or more. i.e left, down, left, right arrow keys, R_CTRL to run Firefox. Right, right, Up, right arrow keys, delete to power off the PC, etc.
Don’t know if such command exists, but there you go.
Bonus points if its a standalone and supports X11, Wayland and Arcan.
Man I already can’t get my inputs right in games, If I ever whiff a fucking combo to start my browser I’m ending it all.
You need to get out of the parking garage from Driver to boot your PC from now on.
↑↑↓↓←→←→ + a + b + Enter =
sudo rm -rf /* --no-preserve-rootAnd you can do it with a controller too!
You mean a key combination like OS, f,i,r,e,f,down,down,enter to launch Firefox?
That exists, bud. There are even multiple ways to achieve the same command, like “OS,t,e,r,m,i,n,a,l,down,enter, ‘open Firefox’”
in my de its just os > firefox > enter
Hahaha, thank you. In windows that would be even more efficient, since a few letters will be enough to identify something unique. Win, f, i, enter
The same is true in Linux, but it’s harder to get the joke with “OS,f,i,enter”
Win, f, i, enter
It’s literally the same with most Linux’s DEs. And even in Window Managers when using dmenu or rofi.
Good. Why did he then fell the need for absurd key combos?
Out-of-the-box Cinnamon & Gnome moment
So, basically, vim? /s
i prefer key chords as a name for that tbh
hyprland has this, but you have to configure it. It’s called Submaps. Some other tiling window managers/compositors (notion for example) have it too, but not to that extent. (notion can be enhanced by Lua scripting, tho.)
The idea is, after the first key of the sequence the meaning of a set of keys change. You could configure those to change the meanings again etc until you finally reach whatever depth you wanted and it performs an action.
However, be warned that hyprland is currently developed by very elitist people who like to support onky a very small set of distributions (primarily Arch btw) and have not much interest in other peoples Ubuntu shenanigens and the likes. It is extremely hard to install in Ubuntu and similar, requiring you to do minor edits to build scripts and source code in multiple languages and finding required library versions from build errors that do not mention them.
Sway and I3 as well, without the warning
So… emacs?
Well, there’s REISUB https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key
Imagine doing a 720 motion input for turning off your computer
Alt f2 xterm sudo poweroff password
Ctrl Alt f2 sudo poweroff password
SysRq o
I think they call these “chords”
Key chords/submodes? Not a desktop app, but an Emacs extension, Hydra. There’s also a Neovim version.
I don’t know of a desktop app, personally I like to keep my desktop keybinds simple, so I wouldn’t really need that.
There are two kinds of people:
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So, basically vim? /s
User @[email protected] · 4 days ago
So… emacs?
sxhkd/swhkd, both support creating these natively and the second one works not just on Wayland, but also X11 and the TTY.
Espanso. A text expander that also runs commands.
