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Re:MacOS-like Fonts on Manjaro/Arch Linux by snazz on Friday September 25, 2020 @10:33AM (#24590190)
The keyboard shortcuts are a major pet peeve of mine on Linux. It wouldn't be technically hard to make the default text editing/WM keys use Super, but I think that Windows-style and Emacs-style shortcuts are too much of an ingrained assumption at this point for it to be feasible to offer system-wide Mac-style keybindings too.

The trackpad woes are a clear priority for some members of the Linux community and I can visualize a future in which trackpads work nearly as well on Linux as they do on macOS. Offering consistent Mac-style keybindings everywhere (maybe through a GTK setting, like switching between Windows-style and Emacs-style?) seems like a harder problem, especially because of the politics and ingrained assumptions.

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Re:MacOS-like Fonts on Manjaro/Arch Linux by duhi88 on Friday September 25, 2020 @11:12AM (#24590635)
Yea, I went down that path, too. Super puts less strain on my fingers, and feels more natural (also, I've been using 95% Macs for half my lifetime, soo...it's a lot of retraining).

It surprises me that there isn't a distro or easy to use tool to use Mac-style keybindings, given the overlap of Macs and Linux systems in tech.

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Re:MacOS-like Fonts on Manjaro/Arch Linux by fratajcz on Friday September 25, 2020 @11:45AM (#24591013)
You should look into kinto, it completely remaps the modifier keys system-wide and worked pretty well when I tried it (I switched to i3wm so I use super for i3 shortcuts now)

https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto

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Re:MacOS-like Fonts on Manjaro/Arch Linux by snazz on Friday September 25, 2020 @11:58AM (#24591175)
Ooh, that's really cool. I hadn't even thought of dynamic rebinding as a potential solution—it seems a little more hacky than proper native functionality (especially since application menus will still display the CUA/Windows shortcuts), but it sounds like a great way for people used to Macs to comfortably use Linux and Windows. Thanks for sharing!
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