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▲ somat 2 hours ago

In the obscure ui choices department, I am that weirdo who uses openbsd as a desktop system, At one point not thinking I did ctrl+a in a firefox textentry and much to my surprise it did the right thing and moved the cursor to the beginning of the line.

I had no idea using unix vs windows cursor movement was even an option, because linux never picks the correct method, Still have no clue how it is set(a gtk option? but qt apps are set the same.) But salutes to whatever obsd porter picked it, really made my day.

▲lloeki an hour ago | parent [-]

GNOME:

    gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-key-theme-name 'Emacs'
or GTK:

     ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
     ~/.config/gtk-4.0/settings.ini


    [Settings]
    gtk-key-theme-name = Emacs
I have it enabled but it can be very confusing: depending on whether you're in a text field or not, in say a browser, ^W will mean delete word or close tab. And sure enough closing a tab will sometimes but not always focus the URL box of the previous tab.

There used to be an obscure internal GTK setting to properly separate control plane from command plane like on (then named) Mac OS X but IIRC it's long gone / hardcoded to only GTK on macOS.

EDIT: Found it, GTK up to 3 had proper <Primary> vs <Control>. In what I would consider to be a fatal regression, GTK 4 just aliases <Control> and <Primary>, leaving the apps to do the work.

https://gaphor.org/2022/12/10/gtk4-macos-keybindings/