Re-rodentbane

Reincarnation of rodentbane - awesomeWM mouse-less navigation

Installation

copy rerodentbane.lua into your $XDG_HOME/awesome/ directory and add local rodentbane = require("rerodentbane") to your rc.lua file. Add a keybind to start the rodentbane to globalkeys eg:

awful.key({modkey, }, "q", rerodentbane)

Restart awesome and join the fun!

Usage

Invoking the rerodenbane will draw a grid of 9 boxes Each box have one button assigned

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|a|k|f|
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|h|;|l|
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|s|j|d|
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Pressing one the key will redraw the grid smaller in the area selected. In average it takes as much as 3 keypresses to get to the place required Default keybinds for rodentbane:

Resize grid:
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  |a|k|f|
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  |h|;|l|
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  |s|j|d|
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Move grid:
  SHIFT + h, j, k, l
Undo last move/resize:
  u
Left click:
  Space
Right click:
  Alt+Space
Middle click:
  Shift+Space
Double click:
  Control+Space
Only move mouse:
  Return

You can modify the keys by calling rerodentbane.bind({modkeys}, key, function). Note that this will disable default bindings.

rerodentbane.bind({"Control"}, "h", function()
    rerodentbane.warp() -- Place the cursor in the center of the active area
    rerodentbane.click(1) -- Click button 1 (left)
    rerodentbane.stop() -- Leave rerodentbane mode
end)

Available functions are:

• click_press(button)
• click_release(button)
• click(button)
• warp()
• stop()
• cut()
• undo()