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Excluding adding an external keyboard and mouse, what quality of life changes can be made to the deck to make keyboard and mouse work less terrible?

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[–] dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I personally like using the touch pads for hunt/peck style typing. This may not be what youre asking, but i find it reasonably useable for my needs

[–] awesomesauce309@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s what I use but the triggers changing to type whatever you’re hovering makes using shift hard. I wish triggers were shift only and you could just tap the touchpads to type.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a toggle under keyboard settings. With the toggle off (which is default behavior I think) the left trigger is shift and the right trigger is enter.

[–] awesomesauce309@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s a huge lifesaver. I genuinely was just giving up when I had to type passwords in

[–] Overzeetop@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Typing my password was what prompted me to ask the question. Looking at my 20 character random password (I don't have a manager installed on the deck) I decided staring blankly out the window for two hours was preferable to attempting to enter the characters - blindly, since the password box was unmodifyingly hidden behind the pop-up keyboard - and hoping I got them all correct and every keypress actually registered, and only registered once.

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