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ofalkaedtoday at 4:14 AM2 repliesview on HN

I have never liked split keyboards but I might if each keyboard was also a mouse with its own cursor, it seems fun to develop the skill to work that way. Would also be useful at times if the the Thinkpad trackpoint and trackpad could each have their own cursor and I could leave one somewhere. Or maybe a cursor stack like pushd/popd, registers would probably work better; instead of virtual desktops just give me one massive desktop with cursor locations I can jump between, switch to cursor 3 it saves the location of the current cursor and jumps.


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voxadamtoday at 6:44 AM

>I have never liked split keyboards but I might if each keyboard was also a mouse with its own cursor

You might enjoy the KeyMouse (https://www.keymouse.com/).

MrDresdentoday at 6:22 AM

I have a UHK split keyboard with a keycluster module (which has a small trackball) on one the left half and a larger trackball module on the right half.

Even though there is only one cursor it's been a really powerful way to work, being able to control the mouse with either thumb.

Then there are the alternative keybindings that allow moving the mouse using the wasd keys as well.