Keyboard-Centric workflow: was GNOME or KDE?

[Joe Neglia]

Thanks, Steve!  Just installed dmenu (actually dmenu_run) from the Debian
repo, and it is great!  My "keyboard centric" workflow up to now has simply
been to launch programs with Alt-F2.  This is waay better.  Ever closer to
getting rid of the darn mouse ...

On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 7:18 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> Joe Neglia via PLUG-discuss said on Wed, 23 Mar 2022 12:27:51 -0700
>
> >Glad to see some love for LXDE.  Been using it for many years now.  It
> >is simple and small.  Would be interested in hearing more about your
> >"keyboard centric workflow" for LXDE.  I'm using xmodmap to emulate
> >the beloved and venerable WordStar keyboard diamond to minimize mouse
> >usage, but am curious what you are using.
>
> Hi Joe,
>
> The stuff I say here is applicable to any WM/DE (Window Manager or
> Desktop Environment) that allows you to assign hotkeys to both WM/DE
> functions and external commands, and LXDE is very definitely in that
> set.
>
> The central tool of my keyboard centricity is a program called dmenu
> from Suckless Tools. Dmenu takes a list as input, and narrows that list
> as you type in letters. Via a shellscript, the list I give it is the
> executable files on $PATH. My shellscript invokes dmenu to display
> vertically instead of the default horizontally, and tells dmenu to
> disregard capitalization in the letters I type and the list items it
> rules out as I type more and more letters. If I want to abort the
> dmenu operation, I press Escape, dmenu returns non-zero, and my
> shellscript does nothing. I've assigned hotkey Shift+Ctrl+semicolon.
>
> I also use hotkeys for other things.
>
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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