A use of Vim keybindings you might not have expected!

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

azthec,

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 👍

mister_monster,

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.

supersquirrel,

I am gonna have to check those out!

mister_monster,

I 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.

supersquirrel, (edited )

That sounds awesome! Now you just need to allow those tabs to be arranged into trees, then allow plain text comments to be interspersed throughout the tree and then allow lisp expressions to be evaluated on the entire environment of the web browser and then…….

…sorry I have an org mode problem

mister_monster,

You sound like you’d like Nyxt browser. Maybe check that out too, I’ve considered moving to it but I’d have to rewrite all of my userscripts in lisp instead of python and I don’t want to do that.

Dirk,
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It’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.

mister_monster, (edited )

Yeah 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.

Dirk,
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Since I have an 28" 4K screen at home, I just prefer dragging windows around with the mouse. My laptop is a tiny, portable, 13 inch device with 1920x1080 pixels resolution so having a tiling WM there makes absolute sense. Since I use the laptop as literal laptop sometimes while on train, etc. not using the mouse to handle windows makes absolute sense to me.

I ran labwc for about 5 minutes before I logged out and went back to my sway environment.

I had the same first experience with it because it was/is mainly “advertised” as Openbox but for Wayland, and that you can reuse your Openbox configuration. Both is not correct. It is modeled after the box-look and supports some of Openbox’s features, but a lot of things are missing. You also cannot re-use most of your configuration without any changes.

A few weeks ago I took a deep breath and spent the weekend building a configuration from scratch. Now it works very well and is almost as usable as Openbox. The two “real” downsides I have are menu icons, which are category C (not in scope, so this won’t likely ever be implemented) and pipemenus, both are things that make up 95% of my Openbox menu setup. For icons I now use emojis and other Unicode characters and pipemenus well come with the next release.

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