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Karabiner is great, but my daily driver is an Ergodox EZ, and it's truly the best. I can edit nearly everything in the web configurator gui, but if I wanted to get crazy, the gui can export the QMK source code and I could compile myself.

The thing that my workflow really needs now is a way to organize/focus specific windows (e.g. a particular IDE window or browser). like I want to be able to assign (on the fly) hotkeys like Alt-1 Alt-2 etc to specific windows.

This is Ubuntu 18 though if such a thing is easier on Mac I could make that my main dev environment (I'm thinking of switching soon anyways once I port my workflow)

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For all the pains it introduces because everything Just Stops Working™, I find the i3 window manager to be fantastic for my windowing workflow.

Once you have decided what goes into each workspace and have a bit of muscle memory for the tiling, switching is instant and organizing is trivial. Never drag a window again!

These blog posts helped a lot in configuring some basic stuff (that IMO really should be available out of the box; I get that i3 is supposed to be light and customizable but it feels really user-hostile on a new install):

https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/creating-a-modern-tiling...

https://cravencode.com/post/essentials/enable-tap-to-click-i...

Yeah I've seen i3 and it looks cool but does it work with regular graphical X window applications? It seems like it's mostly text based though I have seen images in panes.

Yup, it works with everything, not text-based.

I switched to i3 about 2 months ago. I had some false starts with tiling window managers before but i3 just clicked. It’s very easy to configure.

I have a mix of 10 plus terminals, chrome, sublime text, slack and wireshark spread across multiple workspaces in various combinations and it’s brilliant. Some applications work better non-tiled, floating on top of the tiles and this can be configured. I have done that with wireshark.

BetterTouchTool can do what you're looking for, although it might be easier to do with Keyboard Maestro (I haven't used it). Also, you might want to checkout Contexts, which is a superb highly-configurable replacement for Spotlight.

Oo, this looks excellent! Definitely want to try magic mouse at some point, and this seems like a great ajunct for that.

So in combination with Keyboard Maestro (the other piece of software I mention in my post) you can pretty easily wire something like what you ask, on the Mac.

Keyboard Maestro is truly one of the best productivity software for the Mac.

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