Man I already can't get my inputs right in games, If I ever whiff a fucking combo to start my browser I'm ending it all.

You mean a key combination like OS, f,i,r,e,f,down,down,enter to launch Firefox?

That exists, bud. There are even multiple ways to achieve the same command, like “OS,t,e,r,m,i,n,a,l,down,enter, ‘open Firefox’”

So, basically, vim? /s

So... emacs?

hyprland has this, but you have to configure it. It's called Submaps. Some other tiling window managers/compositors (notion for example) have it too, but not to that extent. (notion can be enhanced by Lua scripting, tho.)

The idea is, after the first key of the sequence the meaning of a set of keys change. You could configure those to change the meanings again etc until you finally reach whatever depth you wanted and it performs an action.

However, be warned that hyprland is currently developed by very elitist people who like to support onky a very small set of distributions (primarily Arch btw) and have not much interest in other peoples Ubuntu shenanigens and the likes. It is extremely hard to install in Ubuntu and similar, requiring you to do minor edits to build scripts and source code in multiple languages and finding required library versions from build errors that do not mention them.

i prefer key chords as a name for that tbh

Well, there's REISUB https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

This might be what you're looking for. Here is a YouTube video tutorial.

Imagine doing a 720 motion input for turning off your computer

https://github.com/joshgoebel/keyszer

I think they call these "chords"

Key chords/submodes? Not a desktop app, but an Emacs extension, Hydra. There's also a Neovim version.

I don't know of a desktop app, personally I like to keep my desktop keybinds simple, so I wouldn't really need that.

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User @vort3@lemmy.ml · 4 days ago

So, basically vim? /s

User @djtech@lemmy.world · 4 days ago

So... emacs?

sxhkd/swhkd, both support creating these natively and the second one works not just on Wayland, but also X11 and the TTY.

Espanso. A text expander that also runs commands.

I think you can already do this in one shortcuts, not sure of any standalone program that does, if definably accidentally bond like Ctrl+d, Ctrl+s to screenshot before

Most desktop environments you just hit alt+f2 to activate the launcher which lets you run any command you want