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]OP
    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.