Open nikhgupta opened 3 years ago
If you stay in a mode only for a short time, then a simple notification using AppleScript is probably enough? If you want to know your current mode anytime, a simple(?) method would be to write your current mode to a file [1] each time you enter/exit one. Then, you can assign a key for calling a notification with that file's content, i.e. the current mode.
[1] This can be avoided if skhd supports setting/getting a variable.
If you stay in a mode only for a short time, then a simple notification using AppleScript is probably enough? If you want to know your current mode anytime, a simple(?) method would be to write your current mode to a file [1] each time you enter/exit one. Then, you can assign a key for calling a notification with that file's content, i.e. the current mode.
[1] This can be avoided if skhd supports setting/getting a variable.
Would not that be a very obtrusive approach to any workflow?
I am looking for something like this (ideally): ref
Would not that be a very obtrusive approach to any workflow?
It's not instant (keypresses are often very fast)
We can't display a lot of key bindings (aka cheat-sheet)
Has side-effects: these alerts would remain in Notification Center.
I am looking for something like this (ideally): ref
![](https://github.com/casouri/lunarySpoon/raw/master/screenshot/screenshot0.png)
![](https://github.com/casouri/lunarySpoon/raw/master/screenshot/screenshot1.png)
I thought you only want to know the name of current mode you are in. That's why I suggested notification. Many do the same thing with Karabiner-Elements too!* But, if you want to show next possible commands, then this indeed will be very difficult and ugly using alerts.
* You don't need to write to a file, however, as KE has conditionals.
Edit: About Hammerspoon: How slow was it? If it's really slow, do open an issue in Hammerspoon repo.
I use spacebar https://github.com/cmacrae/spacebar, and have these lines in my skhdrc, which change the background color of spacebar when I change modes:
:: default : spacebar -m config background_color 0xff202020
:: m1 @ : spacebar -m config background_color 0xee009900
:: m2 @ : spacebar -m config background_color 0xee990000
There isn't any lag.
@dsanson I was staying away from spacebar - it has some bugs. But, I liked your idea and started using it and implemented the same workflow. However, I still need to display cheat-sheet when I enter a particular mode - would be very handy. Preferably, I would want it to set an overlay over the whole screen and display available commands starting with that mode/chords. That would be a perfect setup :)
Not quite what you want, but this is a decent gui fuzzy finder for OSX:
https://github.com/chipsenkbeil/choose
Not too hard to feed it a list of all your shortcuts with descriptions. That gives you a kind of cheatsheet, and it can be easily invoked from skhd. (While you are at it, might as well write a script that parses your selected command, and uses skhd -k
to execute it for you.)
@dsanson - ty. This is perfect - and exactly the last piece (rofi
) in my switch from Arch to OSX. This is my ArchLinux setup and the rofi
integration used to look like this.
I'll add that I just made a GUI like what was mentioned here since I wanted it too: https://github.com/glingy/skhdgui. It displays a window in the upper right corner when you are in a mode which lists possible shortcuts from that mode.
You can also take a look at sketchybar. specifically this post: https://github.com/FelixKratz/SketchyBar/discussions/12 Also, you can take advantage ov sketchybar's popups feature to show the possible shortcuts. also, http://github.com/es183923/query-skhd is a POC of a way to easily parse the skhd config
Hello,
I wanted to share my
skhd
keybindings that I use with (SIP disabled)yabai
to manage windows, launch apps, etc. I am usingskhd
as a central place for triggering shortcuts.https://github.com/nikhgupta/dotfiles/blob/osx/user/.config/skhd/skhdrc#L74-L128 ^^ can be useful for VIM users. I can trigger my vim bindings using
SPACE
as leader and OSX bindings usingCAPS LOCK
as leader key.However, I have one simple issue - when space does not have any windows, I can not display borders to know which modal state I am in.
hammerspoon
but it had an issue that resulted in slowyabai
commands.skhd
, and terminal commands alone.If anyone has any ideas for displaying modal state or better yet, display cheat sheet for possible keybindings, please advise.