Zygmunt KrynickiJun 1, 2024

I'm running #Fedora 40 with several flatpak-based things - vs code (unofficial), go SDK, edge and several others.

For the most part things are working but the CLI is somewhat complex to use, to say the least, and the vscode SDK not working out of the box is weird. Each time I have to run in the terminal.

FLATPAK_ENABLE_SDK_EXT=golang flatpak run com.visualstudio.code

I'm also very used to Alt-Ctrl-T from Ubuntu and miss it sorely. I think GNOME should have had that stock for years.

Show threadthpJun 1, 2024
@zygoon +1 on Ctrl+Alt+T, that is muscle memory and I‘m kind of surprised it’s not a more widespread default.
Show threadZygmunt KrynickiJun 1, 2024

@thp Yeah, especially on developer-focused workstation system.

Having to use the application launcher for it is very annoying. Where are my shortcuts? Unity had amazing Super+N (1..9) shortcuts that I miss. Windows has lots of shortcuts for everything (super+x is my favourite). MacOS teaches you about all the shortcuts every time you use the menu.

Linux desktop ... well... where are our shortcuts people?

Show threadPawel TurlejskiJun 2, 2024

@zygoon @thp on Linux we all do our own shortcuts 😁

I've been using the same shortcuts for more than a decade, on windows, mac and linux. Recently even on wayland, which was a pita to set up...

My muscle memory for "switch to or launch" (ctrl+alt+1 for terminal, 2 for editor, qwe for different browsers etc) works everywhere and it required some work on all OS-es. Well worth it! 😊

Show threadthpJun 2, 2024
@PawelTurlejski @zygoon I did that in the past, but these days use OS-specific sane defaults (with vim and zsh being the two exceptions). No need to spend half a day setting up a new install, and can actually use other people’s OS installations (and live „CDs“) when I have to out of the box.
Show threadPawel Turlejski

@thp @zygoon this is exactly why I came up with those shortcuts and supporting scripts: any OS, any time, everything works the same, out of the box (well, after a git clone dotfiles, which you always do anyway).

I can even switch between Gnome and KDE and use the same shortcuts :D

At some point in the past, I was using the three major OS-es daily and the shortcut mess was driving me mad.

Cross-OS shortcut unification saved the day for me :)

Jun 2, 2024 at 6:59amWeb