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Specifying file paths (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

If you know what a nordic keyboard layout looks like, you'd probably prefer backslash. Since I moved to Linux a year ago I've been struggling to find the easiest way to forward slash. Shift + 7? Or numpad / with my right pinky?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

For me it's even worse. Forward slash is also Shift + 7 and backslash is AltGr + ß?? I hate that computing is only optimized for US american layouts. Going by my keyboard, the filepath separator should probably be an ö.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Get a macro pad and configure one button to type a forward slash.

How do you type URLs using that keyboard layout?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

Shift+7 feels wrong for some reason, so I currently tend to just send my pinky on a kamikaze mission towards the numpad hoping I hit /. Sometimes I hit numlock, sometimes I hit *.
Even if I made a compose key "shortcut" via ~/.XCompose it'd still be more work than what I'm doing already.

Macro pad could be a solution, I have considered it beforehand for other purposes tbh