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It's actually quite neat. It is a three part archesta:

1. i3 key binding, say, Super-l that triggers a script of mine.
2. The script itself rofi-menu takes a single argument, a text "menu file" that describes the menu. Say, my-layouts.menu
3. The menu file is super simple. It looks like this:

Menu Title
[shortcut] # <exit | stay> # <label> # <command>
[shortcut] # <exit | stay> # <label> # <command>
[shortcut] # <exit | stay> # <label> # <command>
...

The script parses this file and generates the menu.

• shortcut is the key binding that will immediately trigger the menu item.
• exit | stay defines whether the menu closes after the option is actioned (sometimes you wanna keep the menu open)
• label is what you see in the menu
• command is... well, the command

One more thing, if your hostname is "my_machine", and the menu file that you gave to my script is "my-layout.menu", then the script will actually prefer to use "my-layout.my_machine.menu" if it exists. So you can share your config across multiple machines and have them pick the appropriate menus depending on where it is ran.

A menu example could be:

Layouts
l # stay # Rotate Layout # i3-msg toggle all
f # exit # Toggre Floating # i3-msg floating toggle

So to change i3 layouts, I type:

• Super-l (opens menu)
• l rotate layout (rows, cols, tabs, stack) and keep the menu open. If I keep hitting l it will keep rotating.
• Esc to close the menu.

To toggle the window floating:

• Super-l (opens menu)
• f to toggle floating. The menu closes immediately after.

If you are interested, I can share the script with you :)

It's good for what it's good for: avoiding carpal tunnel.

Are you consistently using a keyboard for 4+ hours a day? I mean typing, not just mouse & the occasional tap. Then Dvorak is vastly superior to qwerty. If not, not really worth it.

It was a huge pain for 2+ months for me to rewire my muscle memory to use it, but it was worth it for me. 15 years of typing a lot almost every day, never had so much as a twinge.

It doesn't help with speed. Typing speeds between qwerty and Dvorak are the same, once you factor in user experience and which one they're more used to.

I can type for longer before my hands need a break.

Personally, I really like it. I've never been a fast typer, but I feel like I'm faster with it. The layout just makes sense to me. There was a significant learning curve though, it took me a while to get used to it

I don't know, I use neo2, but qwerty is bad

Honestly as a Dvorak user, I wouldn't switch if you can already touch type on qwerty. Unless you have to type a lot and are having issues maybe.

If you want to learn though it makes a lot of sense to just learn Dvorak instead. It's easier and less likely to cause issues later.

No I'm not lol I use GUI desktop, I do like the terminal for navigating the file system, running code, and installing apps though

so i guess everybody is doing if via flakes now but can't we just continue with the configuration.nix and home.nix split?