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.

  • @[email protected]
    4•1 month ago

    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.

    • @andnekonOP
      3•1 month ago

      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)?

      • @[email protected]
        2•1 month ago

        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.

      • @Hammerheart
        2•1 month ago

        You basically get to choose which modifier key you want to use