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Re:Linux touchpad: preliminary project funding, survey results by Reelin on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @08:54PM (#23242198)
I can't speak to Windows but at least on Linux that's entirely determined by your desktop environment and terminal emulator. For example, KDE offers near complete configurability of keyboard shortcuts including the ability to specify different sets of active shortcuts based on an application being open or in focus. Taking it even farther, you can use xmodmap (deprecated but simpler) or xkb (full functionality but more complicated) to completely redefine how physical keypresses are translated into software events.

You can do virtually anything on Linux if you're willing to invest the time.

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Re:Linux touchpad: preliminary project funding, survey results by Gracana on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @09:52PM (#23254097)
Yeah, I've set it up before but there's always a program or two that doesn't pick up the settings. And you still don't get the ctrl-<letter> line editing tools in text boxes like you do on Mac OS, so I feel it's more trouble than its worth.
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Re:Linux touchpad: preliminary project funding, survey results by Reelin on Thursday May 21, 2020 @01:56AM (#23255256)
Luckily I haven't run into that, but then I'm not using any commercial software currently and the stuff in the official repositories tends to work the way you would expect it to. Generally your settings should work pretty much independently of any program you happen to be running - xkb in particular is processing the key events at quite a low level.

Regarding the line editing tools you mentioned that sounds to me like something built in to the native UI toolkit (I'm just guessing here though). Reconfiguring how physical keys are interpreted can obviously only do so much. I'd never heard of those shortcuts before and they sound like a really useful feature.

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Re:Linux touchpad: preliminary project funding, survey results by Gracana on Saturday May 23, 2020 @09:11AM (#23282635)
Huh, last time I tried it, I think firefox had trouble picking up my settings. I think that was more than five years ago though, so it's likely things are better now. :)
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