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?

  • dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    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
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      1 year ago

      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.xyzM
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        1 year ago

        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.

          • Overzeetop@sopuli.xyzOP
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            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.

            • Pfifel@lemmy.world
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              1 year ago

              Protip: get KDE connect, connect your phone and deck and then use KDE connect to paste passwords from your phones password manager

              edit: deck has kde connect preinstalled but I think you need to connect your phone in desktop mode.

              you can also then use your phones keyboard to type or use the phone as a touchpad