mhoyeMy fellow nerds: a question about your personal machines:
What is your favourite quality-of-life tweak you've made to your system?
An alias? A utility, a setting, something in .bashrc or ~/bin?
I'd like to know.
Molenaar
Tim ChaseI remap Caps as my Compose key
$ setxkbmap -option compose:caps
and use it DOZENS of times every day.
It's especially handy if you create your own ~/.XCompose file where you can include the system one
include "%L"
and then define your own atop it, so I have added some custom arrows, vertical ellipsis, the "Enter" key (⏎), and a number of emoji like
<Multi_key> <greater> <colon> <parenright> : "😈" U1F608 # SMILING FACE WITH HORNS
Also, it pays to skim through all the `<Multi_Key>` items in the system file to learn what's in there. Em- and En-dashes, horizontal ellipsis, diacritics, superscript/subscript numbers, and so much more.
As a side note, after messing with the ~/.XCompose file, you may need to restart applications for them to pick up the new key mappings.