Re: what keyboard do you use?
On Mon, 2024-02-05 at 08:46 -0500, songbird wrote:
> hw wrote:
> ...
> > It's a badly missing feature from gnome settings that we can't change
> > the key bindings. The layout must be defined somewhere, though.
> > Maybe someone knows where that is?
>
> in MATE there's keyboard settings you can use to switch
> around keyboards and common keys being swapped.
Does that work with wayland?
With a German keyboard, one of the keys I need to change is ~.
There's also ` when you get to do with databases, and a bunch of
others, like changing comma to dot and more that don't come to mind
atm.
Have you ever entered ipv4 addresses (and floats) on a German
keyboard? It's insane.
> i don't use them now, but did in the past. likely GNOME has
> something similar but i haven't touched that desktop in quite a long
> time.
Gnome has actually become usable about 2 years ago, though I miss
fvwm, and the lack of configurability with Gnome sucks badly. I'd
like KDE much better, but KDE has always been rather slow and too
buggy. When I tried KDE with wayland it didn't really work at all.
The only alternative I know of is sway, but I don't get along with
tiling WMs. I like the idea; the problem is that they need to do
floating windows just as well, and they don't do that.
I had fvwm configured so it would manage the windows for me instead of
having to manage them myself, including tiling, but as long there's
no wayland version of fvwm, we're stuck with KDE and Gnome ...
Maybe give Gnome another try. It does have its advantages, and it
can't hurt to check it out.
The additional keys on my 122 key keyboard help with Gnome (and other
things) a great deal. So if you want to get a kind of Model M, get
122 keys.
Who still makes 122 key keyboards except Unicomp?
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