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submitted 10 months ago by GustavoM@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Title. Basically, "if a street fighter gamer and a linux tryhard had a baby" where a combination of keys is issued to run a command/script rather than a single or a simultaneous stroke of two or more. i.e left, down, left, right arrow keys, R_CTRL to run Firefox. Right, right, Up, right arrow keys, delete to power off the PC, etc.

Don't know if such command exists, but there you go.

Bonus points if its a standalone and supports X11, Wayland and Arcan.

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[-] kurisu@awful.systems 25 points 10 months ago

Man I already can't get my inputs right in games, If I ever whiff a fucking combo to start my browser I'm ending it all.

[-] Rayspekt@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago

You need to get out of the parking garage from Driver to boot your PC from now on.

[-] RandoCalrandian@kbin.social 21 points 10 months ago

You mean a key combination like OS, f,i,r,e,f,down,down,enter to launch Firefox?

That exists, bud. There are even multiple ways to achieve the same command, like “OS,t,e,r,m,i,n,a,l,down,enter, ‘open Firefox’”

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

in my de its just os > firefox > enter

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Hahaha, thank you. In windows that would be even more efficient, since a few letters will be enough to identify something unique. Win, f, i, enter

[-] RandoCalrandian@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago

The same is true in Linux, but it’s harder to get the joke with “OS,f,i,enter”

[-] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Win, f, i, enter

It's literally the same with most Linux's DEs. And even in Window Managers when using dmenu or rofi.

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Good. Why did he then fell the need for absurd key combos?

[-] YourMomsTrashman@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Out-of-the-box Cinnamon & Gnome moment

[-] vort3@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago

So, basically, vim? /s

[-] neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space 7 points 10 months ago

i prefer key chords as a name for that tbh

[-] djtech@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

So... emacs?

[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

hyprland has this, but you have to configure it. It's called Submaps. Some other tiling window managers/compositors (notion for example) have it too, but not to that extent. (notion can be enhanced by Lua scripting, tho.)

The idea is, after the first key of the sequence the meaning of a set of keys change. You could configure those to change the meanings again etc until you finally reach whatever depth you wanted and it performs an action.

However, be warned that hyprland is currently developed by very elitist people who like to support onky a very small set of distributions (primarily Arch btw) and have not much interest in other peoples Ubuntu shenanigens and the likes. It is extremely hard to install in Ubuntu and similar, requiring you to do minor edits to build scripts and source code in multiple languages and finding required library versions from build errors that do not mention them.

[-] traches@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Sway and I3 as well, without the warning

[-] solariplex@slrpnk.net 6 points 10 months ago
[-] stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 points 10 months ago

This might be what you're looking for. Here is a YouTube video tutorial.

[-] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

Imagine doing a 720 motion input for turning off your computer

[-] mvirts@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Alt f2 xterm sudo poweroff password

Ctrl Alt f2 sudo poweroff password

SysRq o

[-] callyral@pawb.social 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Key chords/submodes? Not a desktop app, but an Emacs extension, Hydra. There's also a Neovim version.

I don't know of a desktop app, personally I like to keep my desktop keybinds simple, so I wouldn't really need that.


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User @vort3@lemmy.ml · 4 days ago

So, basically vim? /s

User @djtech@lemmy.world · 4 days ago

So... emacs?

[-] megaman@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

I think they call these "chords"

[-] Scraft161@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 10 months ago

sxhkd/swhkd, both support creating these natively and the second one works not just on Wayland, but also X11 and the TTY.

[-] ipsirc@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago
[-] UdeRecife@literature.cafe 2 points 10 months ago

Espanso. A text expander that also runs commands.

[-] nbailey@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Most desktop environments you just hit alt+f2 to activate the launcher which lets you run any command you want

[-] Still@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

I think you can already do this in one shortcuts, not sure of any standalone program that does, if definably accidentally bond like Ctrl+d, Ctrl+s to screenshot before

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