Re: [9fans] Alternative to fine-grained mouse usage?

[igor@9lab.org]

If you are looking for a more keyboard driven window management
version of rio, sigrid has made some experiments with this here:

  - https://git.sr.ht/~ft/riow

It gives you virtual desktops to move windows around in, by
pressing keys, like i3. It features:

 • virtual desktops
 • switch between desktops
 • move windows between desktops
 • toggle fullscreen on the current window
 • start a new window
 • "sticky" programs
 • toggle "sticky" mode for current window

All that with simple shortcuts.

Maybe if combined with the sam tricks that umbraticus mentioned and
the addition of your own scripts as pointed out by 23hiro you might
be able to create an improved user experience for yourself.

Quoth Dworkin Muller <dlm-9fans@weaselfish.com>:
> I have physical issues with trying to perform fine-grained mouse
> operations (uncontrollable small hand tremors).  The net effect is
> that anything more much specific than window selection is difficult
> and takes several seconds - pretty much the antithesis of the study
> results that showed that editing using the mouse to point to where you
> want to type, select text, etc was as efficient as keyboard-driven
> edit.  To give an idea of the scale of the problem, it's difficult to
> get the mouse positioned into the scrollbars or the command bar of
> acme windows, let alone point between two specific characters for
> inserting new text.
> 
> So, my question is, are there any viable alternatives for use with
> Plan9?  Throwing special hardware at the problem unfortunately isn't
> all that viable mainly due to budgetary issues - all the other
> environments I use support keyboard short-cuts for just about
> everything, so it's hard to justify spending any significant amount of
> money for what is essentially a low-priority hobby.
> 
> If the answer is just to use sam, I can do that, but it doesn't really
> help the problem of needing to copy/paste previous commands in
> terminal windows, etc.
> 
> Hopefully I'm missing something obvious....
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Dworkin

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