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[-] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I don't want copy paste buttons support, I want the caps lock delay to be fixed. Yes, I use the caps lock not shift, as my brain can't get used to using shift for caps. I'm so tired of typing like THis all the time. 😂 (I'm using a hack currently that helps, but it would be nice if it gets fixed on Linux in general).

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[-] folaht@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

I have a typematrix keyboard.

[-] sping@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 day ago

I use a key remapper to give me the readline keys everywhere. Though I've used XKeysnail and xremap and they're both a bit flakey, so if anyone has better recommendations that work on X11 and Wayland, I'm all ears.

[-] markstos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

There’s KMonad. Though I tried it once and found it didn’t behave quite like I expected and gave up.

[-] sping@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago

I think that's a slightly different animal. AFAIK it's doesn't switch config depending on the current focused window. E.g. for some programs I don't want remapping.

[-] yaroto98@lemmy.org 9 points 2 days ago

That's why we have mice copy/paste bindings on most systems too. Highlighting text auto copies, and scroll wheel click pastes. Not all do this, but many do and have for a while.

[-] markstos@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

That’s a popular terminal feature, but I regularly get tripped up because my terminal has that behavior but my browser does not.

That’s what’s nice about a global solution.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

in most systems this is global. it's provided by the desktop and programs just see a copy/paste event. are you on wayland by any chance?

[-] markstos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago
[-] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 1 day ago

yeah that'd do it. on X11 this is a solved problem, but wayland delegates the responsibility to the wm, and i don't think anyone other than gnome has actually implemented it. another one of the paper cuts that makes it hard for me to make the switch.

[-] jodanlime@midwest.social 1 points 1 day ago

I'm on Sway and I use the mouse copy and paste all day everyday.

[-] mina86@lemmy.wtf -4 points 2 days ago

Switch to a non-buggy browser.

[-] janAkali@lemmy.one 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There's only two. One has broken primary selection, the other has anti-user policies against adblock plugins.

I can live without copy on highlight. But you could pry UBlock Origin from my cold, dead hands.

[-] mina86@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 day ago

uBlock Origin and mouse copy and paste works perfectly well in Firefox.

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[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

Wow. I haven't seen a Sun keyboard like that in .. geez forever. Whose were fun times. I was younger then.

[-] lemming741@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Ctrl+Ins gang rise up

[-] lascapi@jlai.lu 5 points 2 days ago

Nice !! I like the 'old new again' effect ^^

[-] Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Hey, this is one of the reasons I bought this keyboard!

For a couple extra bucks you can get them to make each individual key a separate key code by asking them to convert it to Single Usage Code Firmware, which is so nifty to me!

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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

there's a growing adoption of keyboards with custom firmware– programmable keyboards

  1. There's an error
  2. You have computers? We have computers to send keystrokes to our computers!

Edit: i mean, there's software to remap your keyboard.

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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 2 days ago

I used to have a Linux keyboard (with Tux instead of the Windows logo on super) with dedicated copy and paste keys. As far as I recall I never used them.

[-] markstos@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

On old keyboards with those dedicated Copy/Paste keys, they weren’t easy to reach.

Now with programmable keyboards and layers, they can be as convenient as Control C & V.

On the software side, there were many years where they weren’t well-supported, but that’s changing now.

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