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Have you ever wondered if your keyboard shortcuts are set up optimally? Well, I did, so I decided to visualize it with a heat-map.

It proved to me that I rely on my left pinky too much, so I'll try to rework my shortcuts.

You can check out the project here, currently it only works on Linux.

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[–] andnekon 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I thought it meant the same, Meta/Super/Windows

I saw these used in documentation interchangeably

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Meta, Hyper, and Super were all originally different keys. See this lisp machine keyboard from in the 70s that had 7 modifiers, including all of those. Most of the time Hyper or Super are mapped to the Windows key. With Meta it varies more from program to program. A lot of desktop software maps it to the Windows key. In Emacs its usually mapped as Alt or the Esc key.

[–] andnekon 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Thank you for clarification!

I don't really understand how can specific programs map the Meta key as something. Isn't it the job of the driver to map key-presses to input events (which are then passed to display server by evdev)?

[–] Hammerheart 2 points 3 months ago

You basically get to choose which modifier key you want to use

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