My main win from using wayland natively is that my speech to text with `ydotool` now gets affected by keyboard modifyers. If I want to quit an application I hit my left bumper (mapped to ctrl) on my controller and say `quebec`. If I want to open my terminal I hit R4 and say "tango". Toggling my STT is R4+A (return jkey).
With this I am more effective with stt+controller than my mini bt keyboard. 🥳
Eventually I want to get a screen reader involved to more effectively navigate content.
@aynish Yeah niri has been great. I just stooped thinking about layouts entirely and scroll left and right. I was kinda put off by tiling managers before because I didn't want to have to think about layouts so much and liked the chaos of having dozens on windows stacked on top of each other.
It's not for the faint of heart tho! You need to set up the xdg desktop portal and stufd yourself. They have guides though
@mauve is... Is there any reason the kill command is "quebec"?
@canteen @atax1a Ha ha that's*exactly* what I do :P
Some STT folks invent their own phonetic alphabet to make it faster / more reliable but I wanted something more reusable in other contexts.
I've been considering adding a "mode swith" to disable the phonetic alphabet so I can use its words directly.
source code for my setup if you're curious: https://github.com/RangerMauve/mauve-dictation
@mauve thank you I love this, I'll look at this for sure!
@mauve this is very convincing reason to switch to wayland 👀
niri also got me like 👀