Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS

Re:Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacemen... by Lio on Saturday November 17, 2018 @04:51AM (#18474816)

Yes that’s what attracts me to Gnome too. The keyboard shortcuts are enough for me to be productive without being fully tile based.

If I could just get terminal shortcuts like ctrl-w for delete word or Ctrl-m for return to work in Firefox text fields it would be perfect for me.

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Re:Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacemen... by chungy on Saturday November 17, 2018 @06:19AM (#18475010)

Open Tweaks, "Keyboard & Mouse" tab, enable Emacs Input. Now you get Ctrl-W in text fields and other shortcuts from Emacs. Doesn't quite work in Firefox though, which has a lot of conflicting shortcuts.

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Re:Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacemen... by Lio on Saturday November 17, 2018 @06:47AM (#18475121)

I have done exactly that... except it doesn’t work in Firefox, as you mentioned. There Ctrl-w always closes tabs, except in pinned tabs when it jumps to another tab without closing.

It does work as expected in Chrom(e|ium) and most other apps. In Chrome you can still close tabs with ctrl-w, you just have tab out of a text box first.

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Re:Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacemen... by jhasse on Saturday November 17, 2018 @06:25AM (#18475037)

Ctrl+Backspace is delete word.

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Re:Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacemen... by Lio on Saturday November 17, 2018 @06:44AM (#18475112)

I’m aware of that but I don’t really like it. I’d much prefer the shorter movement of Ctrl-w.

It puts less stress on my right wrist, which suffers RSI a bit and is consistent with terminals on every (unix-like) OS.

On macOS I get this behaviour via Karabiner Elements; on Gnome I mostly get it via Tweaks. Except in Firefox, as mentioned, where I put up with ctrl-backspace and curse.

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