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paul23
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Is there a desktop manager/overlay that improves use of keyboard navigation?

For my current job I have to work with an apple macbook. The first thing I notice is the high reliance on the mouse. Which is quite slow/painful for me, knowing I need to be careful not to get more pain in my wrist/thumb (and yes even with vertical mice).

In the past I learned really to use keyboard navigation where I can. However in apple this seems to be absent? I thought apple pride itself on a good ui, so this feels a bit out of place?

Things that I sorely miss are

  • "opt to get focus on the launcher, and then able to use arrow keys + enter to open an application".
  • "ctrl+L to open path in finder, to be able to quickly change location"
  • "ability to cycle through pressable buttons (especially in finder, "go up a level", "open item", "open context menu for item") with tab".
  • Ability to open a terminal directly in finder, and keep it integrated (ie quickly cd changes finder as well, and changes in finder change terminal current directory).
  • ctrl delete/backspace/arrow to handle whole words/to next whitespace

I know I can do anything in terminal, but that's just not that user friendly....

paul23
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