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[Question] Are OS X like keybindings possible? (feddit.de)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have been using Linux on and off from the first shipped CDs from Ubuntu. Nowadays I mainly use OS X, because my employer provides us with MacBooks I can use in private and I like the UNIX base and I do not have to tinker to get things to work.

I just set up an old Thinkpad for my kids to start their digital journey with Linux Mint and am considering switching my private stuff to a separate computer.

What I really love about OS X is the consistent usage of alt and the command keys. It basically follows the concept: „you want to do something, press Command + …“ and „you want an alternative character? Press alt + …“.

My experience is that Linux key usage was inspired by Windows at first and Windows did not have a Command key.

Would it be hard to get the same behavior as on OS X with a Linux system?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think, what you're describing used to be a thing, but there's now a somewhat different, more granular way of rebinding keybindings:

However, it should be said that these will only apply within KDE applications. If you're using third-party stuff, like Firefox, GIMP, VLC etc., they won't apply.

If you really want to go hard on rebinding all kinds of keys for any application, you can also do things like these:

As cool as both of these are, and as much as I would still generally recommend picking KDE for these kind of customization possibilities, I wouldn't recommend overdoing either. You won't be able to use other PCs anymore...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I actually went through and customized all the Plasma keybindings to be more like Mac a couple days ago. It works pretty well, but yeah unfortunately only in KDE applications. And there's still some stuff you can't change such as the "extend selection to start/end of word" shortcuts always being set to ctrl+shift+left/right even if you set the "move to start/end of word" keys to option+left/right.