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alan_zerotoday at 1:18 PM5 repliesview on HN

Opensource alternatives:

- https://github.com/moverest/wl-kbptr

- https://github.com/petoncle/mousemaster

- https://github.com/y3owk1n/neru

- https://github.com/mjrusso/scoot

- https://github.com/jbensmann/mouseless

- https://github.com/rvaiya/warpd (not really maintained anymore)


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scottlambtoday at 3:37 PM

> https://github.com/y3owk1n/neru

...which supports Vimium-style hints mode as well as the grid-based approach shown in this "Mouseless (app) explained in 80 seconds" video. It also has a very responsive maintainer.

Personally I like vimium's approach much better than the grid. Unfortunately not everything has a good accessibility tree (Zed sadly doesn't), but I just realized loading neru's page that I'm behind in versions. I haven't tried the "Native Vision OCR" addition to hints mode yet.

I also like having a trackpad right on the keyboard (using a SoflePLUS2 right now though I'm not totally sold on column stagger). Then I can use a real pointing device with only a slight movement of one hand. In the Mouseless video, the creator has tried to minimize the distance by putting the mouse between the halves of his keyboard, but I think he's both compromised the keyboard position to ease using the mouse (arms wide and parallel with wrists turned inward rather than arms converging toward a more splayed keyboard with somewhat closer halves, untented to minimize vertical separation compared to the mouse) and might have an uncomfortably small mousepad to avoid doing this even more. Not a compromise I'd want to make.

lolivetoday at 3:32 PM

warpd, properly configured, was working perfectly for me. until i realized i 99% needed it for web surfing. so i switched to kinkHints in firefox, which is covering my link clicking need.

Lalabadietoday at 2:44 PM

Shortcat is the one I found I was willing to adopt without much effort: https://shortcat.app

ColdPloxtoday at 1:41 PM

Another new one is stochos: https://github.com/museslabs/stochos

Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors/maintainers.