the darnedest thing

i find myself using the hide/restore window function outlined here often enough that it merited updating the Conky desktop in some fashion to reflect the presence of hidden windows associated with the desktop in focus.

the messenging aspect of herbstluftwm via shell scripts and herbstclient allow extending the window manager behaviour.

herbstluft is German for “autumn air” and a unique moniker for a tiling window manager.

while tiling window managers are my preferred desktop environment to work in, it is dmenu that is the glue and allows my workflow to be completely keyboard driven.

stumbling upon a extensively enhanced fork of a favourite applcation always raises my curiousity. dmenu2 doesn’t disappoint, including the available patches to dmenu plus adding several important UI enhancements.

configuration of the Pn layer allows mapping keyboard and function key combinations to provide the shortcuts necessary to emulate a full 104 key keyboard.

i have lost count of all the keyboards that I have owned and used.

my medicine box is comprised of homeopathics (shamanic elementals), breath/body (rebirthing, emotional body, myofascial tissue, energy) work and shamanism (feather work, tobacco, plant medicines, allies, ceremony).

allows for some additional keyboard mappings, in particular, for the keys most difficult to reach but often used.

is a Colemak mod that attempts to tweak the Colemak layout by reducing the lateral movement of the index fingers, notably for the D and H keys, so they are pressed by the index fingers on the bottom row instead.

inserting rubber o-ring dampeners with clickety Cherry MX Blue switches improve the typing experience on the Filco Majestouch significantly, by mitigating the bottoming out of the keystroke, whilst shaving a hair off the keystroke travel.

keycaps are about 2mm shorter than the “OEM” profile keycaps which come standard with the Poker 2 keyboard.

there are many typing tutors available as web browser or standalone applications.

favouring my index finger over the middle finger, I have now been toying with the bottom row of my Colemak Shift-DH layout, swapping the C and V keys of that layout.

i’ve been living with herbstluftwm for half a year now.

seem like an unlikely topic.

my Poker 2 keyboard travels with me everywhere so my Colemak Shift-DH layout is available to me on any computer I use.

tiling window managers are often choices for “riced” computer desktop environments—the reason being, that the more popular stacking window managers such as Windows, OSX or Gnome, merely impose a standard look or appearance to applications which, for all i…

after several months of using my Colemak Shift-DH layout, I have finally arrived at a tri-coloured keyboard layout which highlights the modifier, home row and function layer—left number keypad and right navigation cluster (see Colemak Shift-DH for the fun…

Vim is a modal editor—with insert (writing) and command modes—that persists despite the evolution of graphical editors, many of which are equally powerful and have become de facto standards on their respective platforms.

user scripts are commonly dropped into the user $HOME/bin directory.

refactoring the dmenu scripts afforded revisiting rofi, a dmenu substitute.

inevitably, shell scripting a suite of herbstluftwm window manager functions led to considering recoding the scripts, originally written in zsh to dash.

anyone perusing this site has probably noticed that I do not subscribe to social media services.

converting from dmenu to rofi, it turns out, proved to be just the beginning.

the Fuji X100T is a significantly different beast from its X100 ancestor.

leader keys allow chording command sequences.

or customizing one’s computer desktop is more than just changing a desktop wallpaper or GUI theme for *nix users, though, it often begins with such.

filesystem netbook server boot drive 250GB 120GB /boot 200MB 400MB swap 4.1GB 8GB / 1GB 1GB /home 10GB 60GB /opt 1GB 1GB /srv 50MB 3GB /tmp 200MB 500MB /usr 7GB 8GB /usr/local 500MB 500MB /var 4GB 4GB /net 20GB 4.6TB

distraction free writing applications abound for Windows, Mac OSX and to a lesser extent Linux.

a lot of *nix users rice their desktops to personalize the look of their operating environments.

intel based macbook pro’s make good Linux laptops.

the planck ortholinear keyboard is a 40% keyboard of 4 rows by 12 keys which, at first glance, would appear to be inadequate for serious keyboard usage.

is an unorthodox twist on the ergonomic finger Curl mod introduced to the Colemak mod-DH layout.

the flashed layout Colemak Shift-DH introduced left/right hand diagonal fingering symmetry which alleviates the left hand wrist twist of most keyboard layouts.

after using the planck ortholinear keyboard for only a few weeks, I am a converted user.

a picture can be worth a thousand words. keyboard-editor-layout.com is used to realize the Planck layouts described here. colemak dh the default layout (with V B key swap).. where my fingers rest most of the time.

it didn’t take long to publish my original Planck layouts and then do some rethinking about the hexadecimal keypad and the symbol layers.

no sooner said, than undone.. or at least revisited!

changes to my Plancks are incremental now.

just as I thought I was done, typing revealed one last(?)

just when you think you’re done, there is always another idea to try out!

it wasn’t long after settling on the wide Planck layout for a time, that a number of thoughts and observations came to mind (with input and inspiration from the Colemak community, ever in pursuit of perfection).

software easily allow programming the layers and key actions that make the Planck such a uniquely powerful 40% keyboard.

finding one shot modifiers very useful in relaxing the finger timing for key chords, I was interested in seeing if adding a Shift one shot modifier to the thumb row would make typing feel more rhythmic.

the alternative layout Colemak significantly improves upon the widely used QWERTY.

several steps removed from the Colemak Mod-DH layout with the Colemak CF key swap, a simple incremental optimization can be achieved with the.. pg swap The PG key swap is arguably a wash as their letter frequencies are similar, so much will depend one’s p…

the current Planck (keyboard) state as documented on this site and dotfiles.

an alternate right hand centric, thumb oriented TxBolt (default layer) implementation for the soft/hruf Splitography.. legend base layer cursor and mouse actions numbers and symbols function keys work flow short cuts qwerty layer QWTY key to toggle QWERTY…

plancks with Cherry “Silenced” MX-Black keyswitches with 62 gram springs and sculpted SA profile keycaps..