Mastodawn

Okay, following what I did on XFCE, I was able to replicate on KDE (yay!). So, now I’m able to type my special characters using my well memorized Mac keyboard memory, but it only works with the right alt key—which I never used on the Macintosh and so most of the inputs for these characters feel incredibly uncomfortable to input (I like to use my left thumb for option/alt and left pinky for shift—most of those higher level key combinations make use of characters on the right side of the keyboard, so it’s a nice division of labor). My potential solution, evremap does not seem to be able to counter the OS’s hold on the left alt key. What are my options (no pun intended) to finally be happy with typing?

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Cecelia Dec 25

Trying out ElementaryOS and the keyboard hurts. I also miss the menu bar. But I’ve already been busy using evremap to bring some comfort back to my hands. I started out with the left option/alt key to let me type my special characters (I manually select my curly quotes…among others) and switching to using the right key just feels more contorted, but found myself going all out since I’m using a VM.

Needed to install git. 😅 Maybe I’d be better off with a distro having more configuration out of the box, but I did appreciate having some control for keyboard commands (as a long term Mac user with a lot of text nav experience, some behavior was confusing (I’m doing all kinds of fancy things when I’m just trying to get around a paragraph. 😆

I’ve invested time (and money 😌) into this experiment, so I guess I’ll keep going.

It’s funny. With years of web server management, I’m much more at home in the terminal. Is this why there’s diehard command line folks? 😅

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