u/BAUDR8

Fievel contains everything you need to replace your mouse with keyboard on Linux (wayland). Currently Fievel is Linux only. It’s free and completely open source, written in rust:

https://github.com/MontyTheSoftwareEngineer/fievel/

Free mouse mode: freely move mouse using hjkl (or any keys of your choice via config file). Supports left click and right click which can be held useful for dragging. Also supports scrolling left down up and right as well as sending Home and End key to quickly jump to top or bottom of page. By default free mouse mode is in “hold” mode so as long as you’re holding the free mouse mode button (or chord) it will stay in free mouse mode. Releasing the free mouse mode button takes it out of that mode. There is also a config option to make it “toggle” meaning you press the button for free mouse mode and it will stay in that mode until you press the button again.

Hint Mode: draws rectangles on screen with corresponding letters at areas Fievel believes is clickable. Type the letters to make Fievel click on the rectangle of choice. Useful for quickly sending clicks in at certain locations.

Key Remapper: this is useful for setting “chords” on any keyboard not just programmable ones. For example, I have a+s together initiate super, s+d to initiate control, caps lock rebound to control unless held in which case it will turn hjkl to left down up right keys. d+f is bound to initiate free mouse mode. Also a set of super and control binds for the right hand side.

In case you're interested in other options:

Neru has been suggested a lot. I probably should have spent some more time looking and exploring this option as I believe you can make it do pretty much everything fievel can do and supports mac windows and linux to boot. Developed by u/y3owk1n

Keyd - software key remapper I used to use

Mouseless - Original free mouse mode app I used. It is paid but a great app nonetheless as well as cross platform.

wl-kbptr - opencv based hint mode. free and open source (wayland)

warped - don't know much about this one but have seen it suggested in the past

Been looking (and asking AI) to no avail. Looking to see if two things are possible with the Paths tool.

Firstly, after drawing a few nodes, I go back and try to edit curve handles for the node. There doesnt seem to be a good way to then continue on from the last node I drew? When I start drawing again it starts creating a new path with a new node. Is there a way to make it go back to the last node I drew via keybinds? Right now I draw a new node, realize it's a new path, hit backspace, and then manually click on the last node I drew to continue on from there.

Secondly, in Inkscape, with the pen tool, after creating a curved path, I can press Shift + L and it forces the next path to be a straight line with no curves affecting it. Is this possible with Gimp? See screenshot in case i didnt explain it well, you can see the blue lines are a curve but immediately after I was able to force the next node to be a straight line

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I used Ubuntu for a very long time because things just worked. That’s very important to me to stay efficient and productive at work and minimize down time. I heard about Hyprland as a tiling manager and the idea of not “minimizing” windows to be forgotten made so much sense to me. Around that same time I heard about Omarchy and decided to give it a spin on a second laptop. It was my first experience with hyprland and the built in themeing and everything like wallpaper, waybar, etc being “built in” and set up was a great way to transition in while also staying productive at work. I switched over to Omarchy as my daily driver for a year and learned more and more about how the different parts of the system worked (like hypridle, hyprlock, waybar, etc). I customized everything to my liking.

Then the announcement of Quattro came and the move to hyprland lua files and Quickshell. On a secondary laptop I did the migration of my current dot files over and a series of setup scripts to run on a new Omarchy installation to get my exact setup back. I was able to test and debug these scripts on other laptops. At this point I was thinking… I’m basically building my own opinionated scripts, is Omarchy even that necessary anymore? One thing I “battled” Omarchy with was wanting to create a new keybind, binding it, then finding out it was something already used in Omarchy for something I would never use. Obviously not a huge deal to unbind, but just kept happening. Along with probably 90+% of the scripts they bundle in I found myself really not using.

At the same time I see dhh saying Omarchy will be heavily AI integrated and that a lot of the os now was being done via AI. More and more Omarchy plugins were coming out and they seemed to be all AI generated and many were redundant. Now I’m not necessarily against AI, I do use it at work and it’s such an incredible tool, but I’m seeing first hand as well how much deep knowledge/understanding we’re losing to it. I have coworkers pushing 60 file PR’s with “idk” as the message and just no longer understanding the code base or fundamentals. It’s disconcerting and I see the same thing happening with Omarchy. Before quattro it seemed like users understood more how to configure and rice the system but now with the heavy ai push anytime someone asks a question it’s “just ask ai”.

So I decided to make my own opinionated arch os. My packages, my keybinds, my theme. I’m learning even more about how the system goes together and it’s really not much harder than writing customization scripts that sits on top of someone else’s opinionated os.

Personally, I think Omarchy is a great preconfigured Arch OS for anyone interested in learning the workflow of an Arch/Hyprland setup while still having a usable system to be productive. But once you want to stop “fighting” someone else’s preconfigured setup and AI slop, creating your own archiso is a lot easier than I originally thought. Sure I don’t get the built in pretty theme switchers, but I don’t change my theme really that much for it to be a problem and at the end of the day if you look at how it works you can easily write a script that would basically allow any “omarchy” theme to work on your system.

I just finished an 8 week 5K improvement plan from runna. I really enjoyed the varying workouts (intervals, easy base run, tempo, etc). During that time I saw a bunch of people saying they just use Garmin's suggested daily workout and was interested in trying it out.

Today I tried out Garmin's suggested daily workout which was supposed to be a "sprint" workout. Looking at it, warmup at 149bpm, then 10seconds full out sprint followed by 3mins "recovery" (down to 118bpm). do that 8 times, then a 10 min cool down.

This is much different than the workouts I've received from Runna. Example most track workouts from runna maybe had 1;30 or at most 2:00 walking rest after a fast pace of 400/600/800/or 1000m distance. I sprinted as hard as i could for the 10 seconds, but it really felt like a short amount of time with a really long rest. At the end of the workout the watch reported back to me and said the main effect was "Base" 😂

Tomorrow it has scheduled 2x3x0:15 all out... I'm still relatively new to runningish, but I'm just not really sure I'm seeing the stimulus for these or maybe I'm just doing it wrong? Any suggestions from people who may have done both runna and garmin on which they ended up seeing more benefit from or any other insights? Thanks

First and foremost, I love AI and how much time it saves. I’ve been an embedded software engineer for over a decade and it helps out a ton with my tasks on a day to day basis. We have a couple new hires who are fresh out of college and rely so heavily on it, some dont even have IDEs set up. Sure they get tasks completed, but sometimes it’s done the incorrect way and you can tell there’s a lack of understanding of how the implementation was made which also leads to a lack of understanding of the system/product.

I’ve been test driving Quattro for a day now and pretty much have converted most of my hyprland conf files over to Lua and am looking forward to diving deeper into quickshell (esp since Qt/QML has been my speciality my whole career). But majority of time I see people asking for help, “ask an ai agent”. Even something as simple as trying to modify the default quickshell conf I asked in discord and was told “idk ask ai agent”. I found it was as simple as ~/.conf/omarchy/shell.json; not sure why I need to burn tokens to find that out. Anyways it’s looking like the same thing is happening here where people are beginning to abstract themselves away from the OS configuration behind an ai prompt instead of understanding how their system actually work. Pre Quattro that was not the mentality and it seemed like a lot more users knew exactly where their configuration files lived and how to rice out their systems.

Again I’m not anti AI and use it often, just feel like we should also put in the effort to understand our systems.

/rant

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Looking to move to Quattro soon, but the only thing I haven't seen yet is something similar to how I currently have my Waybar configured. My Waybar workspace area will update with icons of open applications (based on a defined map), is there a Quickshell plugin already developed that has this functionality? Thanks

I have an easy run tomorrow and I’ve been tending to lean going a little too fast (who doesn’t) on these runs. Is it possible to set a pace target and have it sync to Garmin much like the interval workouts?

So I got back into running in May 2026 after about a year off (newborn life 😅). Since then I've been pretty consistent and I'm currently on week 5/8 of a Runna 5K improvement plan. I also picked up a Garmin Instinct 3, which I've been loving.

Recent runs:

• 3.75 mi @ 9:20/mi, avg HR 152 bpm
• 6 mi @ 8:47/mi, avg HR 168 bpm

I'm happy with my progress and have definitely improved since May.

Out of curiosity, I looked back at data from about 2 years ago when I had a Garmin Venu 3. At the time I was doing CrossFit ~6 days/week, ran only occasionally (no structured plan), and never paid attention to HR. I found a 3-mile run at 8:47/mi with an average HR of just 139 bpm.

That seems like a huge difference compared to now. I know the Venu 3 has a newer optical HR sensor than the Instinct 3, but can the sensor alone account for ~30 bpm? Or did I really lose that much fitness during the year I took off?

5k improvement plan, progressive & Challenging. This is my first plan with runna and I was happy to see for this week (week 3 of 8) my easy run was 4 mi and long run 5 mi. Thought it would get longer or stay the same but looking forward to my next week it has 2.75 mi on two separate days as easy runs and a long run at 3.25 miles. Is this normal or did I mess something up 😅