How I messed up by accidentally replaying all my keystrokes from the last few days
How I messed up by accidentally replaying all my keystrokes from the last few days
Let me preface this by saying that I am aware of the fact that this one 100% user error on my part, and I don't mean to blame anyone else for it, the reason why I'm creatin this issue is that I'd l...
After getting a comment from the creator of kanata (an awesome piece of software by the way) that he found my story amusing, I figured that I'd also post it here, partly as fun, partly as a cautionary tale. Also, I'd appreciate any tips as to what to check for in my system, it's a weird feeling to know that some stuff might have been messed up under the hood.
Wow, this reflects quite well on the feelings! 😄 Also, it shows that it could've been much worse. 😐
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Lmao
Seriously though, limiting the macro length to something reasonable should work, but it’s also guaranteed to make some people mad. I’m sure there’s at least one user who is working on something absurdly obscure that requires a macro long enough to reach beyond the edge of the observable universe.
My solution is to make the default behavior sensible, while proving a special option for that one guy. Just limit it for the average user, but not for everyone.
Well you make that adjustable with infinite being one of the choices. Set it to a default of something like 25 and let the user increase if they need to.
That would be a very nice option. In some apps, 0=infinite, while the other numbers work as expected.
Yeah I mean the issue mentions that a reasonable default that can be override.
I once left my phone non locked in my pocket once and it started typing a ton of gibberish in a serious group chat. So yep, could've been worse for you
That's fun and also horrifying. Consider the fact that your keyboard history likely has your password it. You could end up running sudo commands and authorizing things unintentionally
ya don't have to enter your sudo password if you're already logged in as root
Great one 😅
Glad you liked it! 😀
Being able to at least entertain people by sharing my misfortune makes it more bearable. 😉
Oof I would be so panicked if that happened to me
OP is literally the dude running the strange setup in the age olld, "this should be a solution that anyone can use, no one can be running THAT strange of a setup".
Why would you use two numpads as a keyboard. WHY
Because ortholinear split keyboards aren't that easy to come by (I got tired of confusing my fingers when reaching for letters between them, now there is no "between", just straight columns. Also, I can hold my hands at shoulder width!), on the other hand this was an option I had all the necessary hardware for, and with some software configuration it is actually really usable!
(The question could potentially also be "Why aren't more people using two numpads as a keyboard?", but I guess that the answer would be somewhere between they don't care about and they don't know about the advantages it would provide. 🙃)
Damn. In the old days, I would have yanked the power cable out, but I probably wouldn't remember powering off the laptop either. Kudos for posting about it though.
This made me chuckle, thanks!
Does Ctrl+Alt+Backspace not kill X any more (assuming you're using X)?
Does Ctrl+Alt+Delete reboot the system from a graphical desktop? Or is that only from the virtual consoles?
I wonder if locking the session would have stopped it as well. I doubt the Alt+SysRq combos would have been useful since other random input was happening at the same time (unless the next keystroke happened to be an I, U, or B).
1.) I'm using wayland (river as a compositor at this point), and have not set up a key combo for
riverctl exitin fear of an accidental trigger, but it might actually be a good idea.
2.) As far as I know, that only applies to the VTTYs.
3.) Setting up a screen locker program does seem like a good option for preventing unwanted input (which can occur for other reasons as well, such as my one year old son 😀) without potential loss of work / data! Isswaylockthe go to solution for this nowadays?River looks nice, I use bspwm for years now and always was in search of another highly configurable wm/compositor for Wayland. I hate the i3/sway way of doing things i.e. beeing very opinionated while pretending not to and doing things almost like a DE.
On first glance this seems to be it! With riverctl replacing bspc. It even allows external programs for the layout and the config is by default just a shell script.
Are there any known issues you encountered or quirks? Would you recommend it to me?
They moved Ctrl-Alt-Backspace behind a config iirc - too easy to hit by accident.