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warpd
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rvaiya / warpd

warpd

A modal keyboard-driven virtual pointer

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20Mentions
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3.7KGitHub stars
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A modal keyboard-driven virtual pointer

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Observed mentions: 2022-10-16 07:43:35 UTC to 2026-06-05 13:19:31 UTC.

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What Hacker News says

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I was forced to use my computer mouseless for a couple of months recently (due to problems with the USB ports). It wasn’t a huge issue since I had things set up mouselessly to start with: with the combination of Sway, Vimium, Emacs, zathura [0] and warpd [1] it was quite tolerable. That said, I’m happy to have my mouse back now — there’s just too many applications which assume that you have one. [0] https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/ [1] https://github.com/rvaiya/warpd
In A mouseless tale: trying for a keyboard-driven desktop
Thanks! It was actually inspired by rvaiya's warpd [0] which has a similar grid mode but with quadrants instead. I thought that needing to choose out of four quadrants at once is a bit overwhelming on cognitive load for something that is meant to be a subconscious extension of your hands, so instead I just unified it with the arrow keys as a "shrink in this direction" choice rather than "choose one of four quadrants". Changing it to bisection/binary partitioning also means that don't need any visual aids as it's exceedingly simple to see which edge your target is the closest to. [0] https://github.com/rvaiya/warpd
In Show HN: LibreScroll – enable flywheel-scrolling on any generic mouse
It certainly would be but looking at the options tells me that they're hooking into MacOS's widget libs and on Linux there's just so many. What I get by with to go mouseless is Tridactyl for Firefox, warpd for when I need a pointer, and when I absolutely, positively need a mouse, mouse emulation on QMK keyboards never fails me. I only need it these days for dealing with MacOS outside of my Linux VM. I also use keyd in order to remap keyboard shortcuts. https://github.com/rvaiya/warpd https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd Why in the world are those links side by side?
In Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

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