supposedly the programmer layouts have ctrl and alt like old messagease had but i can't find them? all i can find is dessalines saying it should be in the thumbkey developer layouts in here: https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key/issues/656
supposedly the programmer layouts have ctrl and alt like old messagease had but i can't find them? all i can find is dessalines saying it should be in the thumbkey developer layouts in here: https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key/issues/656
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juche_fan@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 310d
now if there's a way to get ctrl+alt on the messagease layouts would be a followup question, i don't want to learn a new button layout if i can avoid it, been using messagease since first term obama lol
juche_fan@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 157d
As a fellow traveller in "using Messagease since the Obama administration [first term]" I was pleased to find out that there is now an "english symbols messagease modifiers" layout that puts ctrl in south-west-swipe-south-west and alt in south-east-swipe-south-east
dessalines@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 304d
I can't seem to find it in any of the layouts, it'd have to be added. But also since thumb-key really doesn't have tap and hold, what are you trying to do?
termux and terminal emulators usually have a bar for these rare press and hold actions.
fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk · 2 pts · 304d
@dessalines @juche_fan this is something I miss from messagease, too. there were special gestures for ctrl and esc. (up and back from the space bar iirc.)
juche_fan@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 291d
on messagease i would just do the ctrl or alt swipe then press a letter (etc) and it would do ctrl+letter, so useful for e.g. screen/byobu/tmux ctrl+a n without fiddling with special terminal app keyboards. also ctrl+a, ctrl+c, ctrl+v, ctrl+x, ctrl+z usually work in android apps and sometimes work better than the dedicated buttons for them
peacepath@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 223d
It seems some methods exist in the code and could be binded to keys using Yaml:
ToggleCtrlModeTrue ToggleCtrlModeFalse ToggleAltModeTrue ToggleAltModeFalse
I haven't figured out how to write the Yaml properly for that in the little text field to modify keys... but I think it could solve the problem. Does any one how this yaml text field works?
peacepath@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 223d
I found how to do the yaml, but that methods do not do that I was expecting... and therefore it doesn't solve the problem.
dessalines@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 222d
There are some recent unreleased code fixes related to this but I have no idea what your problem is so I can't solve it. You'll need to open up an issue in the github.