Okay. So, here I am, posting from Debian via wifi. It was a bit of a mess figuring out how to get wifi to work on a nearly 15 year-old MacBook Pro, but this article really helped: https://jacobkaiserman.com/2024/04/20/debianWifiDrivers.html
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Somehow I’ve stumbled upon a strange combination for special characters using my option keys, but they do not match what I’m expecting to be using on from the U.S. English Macintosh keyboard…
…and I still don’t know how to type an ellipsis without pasting…
Also, I’m now messing around with keyd because I desperately want to get my typing figured out and I am not sold on the compose key.
Using Xfce on real hardware (which feels a lot like it was modeled after Mac OS X a bit), I was able to pick my keyboard and I’m typing em dashes and elipses, no problem. Still annoyed that the left option key is unavailable to me by default. sigh
I’m learning so much about the inner workings of keyboard layouts.
Now I understand why the Linux people are always talking about Linux. The personal obsession…
Also, I did something (maybe?) and now Command+V gives me a clipboard history which is kinda neat—and I’m now just remembering that I forgot to use it for that ellipsis. 🙃
@helianthropy Oh, there's so much more! For example, I used keyd to rebind my caps lock to RMB(holding right mouse button on laptop is a pretty nontrivial thing).
@hagarashi8 Thanks for the confirmation of support for layers.
It’s a configured shortcut for the Clipboard widget (I think)! Meta+V.
So many nice things that I don’t want to clobber with Macintosh key sequences.
Okay. Reconfigured the keyboard for dead keys. Now works as expected (with Right Alt, though I primarily use the left Option key).
Edit: This was an old post from, like, January that I accidentally deleted because I didn’t understand how Tuba sorted replies (and notifications, it seems). 🤦🏾♀️
I think I am in love. My desktop looks a little of a mess, but it is so empowering to be able to make it that way—and with time and effort, I can make it better and contribute back.
P.S. I totally copied and pasted that em dash. How the frak do people type em dashes when not on a Mac or using a word processor (serious question)?
@helianthropy Yay! It really is nice to be able to set up your computer just so.
I don't often use em dashes myself, but for that sort of thing I normally use unicode entry (ctrl-alt-shift-u followed by the unicode hex designation, then the enter key. The only one I have memorized is 1fac2 for the "people hugging" emoji; looks like em dash is 2014). Or you can enable the compose key and use a compose key shortcut (not sure how you set that up in KDE, but I've used it in Gnome and KDE should have an equivalent).
@forth Thanks. I thought I had it enabled, but I’m also trying really hard to work with my Mac muscle memory. I’ve got dead keys working but looking at a chart now, I suppose I need to study some of these differences (or continue building out my Mac keyboard evremap conf file 😅 — has nobody already released one?). Some of the sequences are more memorable than unique single character plus modifier key(s) combinations on the Mac (looking at those currency symbols).
It supports lid-close sleeping! ❤️
I appreciate when things just work. The volume and brightness keys are also functional. When software and standards are open, so much neatness and variety can be achieved.
I am trying out KDE Plasma as a desktop environment for the first time. I am liking the customizability. 🙂
(Also, yay! The emoji picker did not crash on a system with a full 16 GB of RAM available to it.)
I am really appreciating the clickiness of this keyboard. I am sadly, however, missing whatever setup Elementary OS did to support typing all manner of special/accented characters via intuitive keyboard inputs that I am used to on the Mac.