A mouseless tale: trying for a keyboard-driven desktop

I'm a fan of ratpoison - https://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/

I love these papers. I have been on a similar path on macOS.

Concerning Vimium, there is the Vimium C version that seems to be a bit faster.

On macOS there is a similar software (don’t remember its name) to use a Vimium like feature on your whole desktop.

I switched to mousing left-handed at some point, years ago. I noticed some of my left-handed colleagues mousing wrong-handed, possibly because of right-handed siblings, and getting some good use out of having pen and paper more easily accessible because of it. I decided I'd do the same.

Something I didn't expect: with my left hand on the home row, I can touch the mouse by stretching my little finger. So it's no effort at all to put my hand on it and use it to move the cursor. And so I've pretty much given up entirely on using the keyboard for arbitrary caret motion. It's much easier to just put my hand on the mouse and move the cursor and click where I want it to go.

So many good options here.

Vimium is the gateway drug to the fantastic qutebrowser (more integration and customisation, scripting, based on qtwebkit/engine).

There's so many ways to do this with tiling window managers, keyboard managers for browsers, scriptable keyboards, etc.

My personal setup is Guake for instant terminal, chat gpt cli, Firefox + vimium, and a tiling gnome extension (wintile I believe).

It's minimally invasive, and bog standard Ubuntu otherwise.

On Mac so don’t know when I’ll try this but suggest uhk keyboard for anyone going mouseless

PaperVM is really neat. Much simpler to setup, learn and understand than for example i3.