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Have you ever wondered if your keyboard shortcuts are set up optimally? Well, I did, so I decided to visualize it with a heat-map.
It proved to me that I rely on my left pinky too much, so I'll try to rework my shortcuts.
You can check out the project here, currently it only works on Linux.
what are you doing with your caps lock key?
I have it mapped to control
I assume the red is the least used.
Yeah I suppose that would make more sense. Although using red to indicate least used on a heat-map seems like a poor choice
Some people use caps lock instead shift for capital letters
I see this all the time when the person first learned to type on a touchscreen keyboard.
Looks like somebody relies on caps locked a little too heavily. Or as you might say, STOP FUCKING SHOUTING ALL THE TIME!
I don’t know what this is at all, every one knows ctrl and alt is where it’s at and enter/ caps lock? Are you just trying to piss people off?
I'm using a tiling window manager and neovim as my main editor, so I have to use hot-keys quite a lot As for the caps, I have it remapped to control
What's the Meta key? Is that like the Super key?
I thought it meant the same, Meta/Super/Windows
I saw these used in documentation interchangeably
Meta, Hyper, and Super were all originally different keys. See this lisp machine keyboard from in the 70s that had 7 modifiers, including all of those. Most of the time Hyper or Super are mapped to the Windows key. With Meta it varies more from program to program. A lot of desktop software maps it to the Windows key. In Emacs its usually mapped as Alt or the Esc key.
Thank you for clarification!
I don't really understand how can specific programs map the Meta key as something. Isn't it the job of the driver to map key-presses to input events (which are then passed to display server by evdev)?
You basically get to choose which modifier key you want to use
I'm not sure if it's directly mapping the input. I think it's getting the other keys input and binding it to the same commands. Also, Emacs was around even before the X windowing system, so they probably came up with the mappings before a lot of these common defaults came about.
