Comment by HKH2

Comment by HKH2 a year ago

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Why have three Ctrl keys? Why not use an empty modifier and have your own shortcut keys that you can guarantee no other program uses?

yjftsjthsd-h a year ago

> Why have three Ctrl keys?

You could just swap caps with one.

> Why not use an empty modifier and have your own shortcut keys that you can guarantee no other program uses?

Because that would require messy tinkering with multiple layers of software.

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  • HKH2 a year ago

    From memory, Linux has spare modifiers. You can see them using xmodmap. It's easy to assign shortcuts using them.

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