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NateEagtoday at 2:38 PM5 repliesview on HN

I prefer ShortCat's model:

https://shortcat.app/

Similar to Vimium, but for the whole OS. Apparently Homerow is similar, judging from comments I'm seeing here.

I really wish I knew an equivalent for Linux. I might even leave Gnome behind if a different DE has a good model for this.


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turtlebitstoday at 4:43 PM

I like shortcat, but it's slow, even on a modern Mac.

Also, I'm not sure the dynamic nature of the hotkeys is a good thing. I could imagine if you use Mouseless for a long period of time, muscle memory might prevail as screen locations map to the same set of keys.

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khutornitoday at 2:46 PM

ShortCat has a beautiful slogan:

"Manipulate macOS masterfully, minus the mouse."

bobchadwicktoday at 2:50 PM

I used to use (and love) ShortCat, but it got too slow on my ancient MacBook Pro. I switched to Mouseless, and I actually prefer it now.

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zuzululutoday at 4:05 PM

This is purrrfect ;)

I've been looking for something like this

UI_at_80x24today at 5:13 PM

Have you looked into Sway/i3?

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