Andy

The window shade problem is keeping me from Wayland. AFAIU there's currently no commitment to ever fix it on Wayland, it's only a maybe.

For anyone interested, it's being tracked here.

It's more about replacing typed text than using shortcuts, but there's espanso.

Ok next time I won't use your computer.

I'll just second the suggestion that KDE Plasma is worth a try, as it's very adaptable once you know what you want. You don't need to install any addons for the functionality you describe, just open the Shortcuts settings, KWin category, and have at it.

Ooh I haven't seen this one. Anyone have a comment on this vs the KleverNotes project? I think that's the name.

The Power and Battery widget now responds to middle-clicks and scrolls: middle-click will block or re-enable automatic sleep and screen locking, and scrolling will change the active power profile

Scrolling on the battery applet is how I adjust my brightness. Is that no longer a thing?

Have you checked the system settings page that includes compositor stuff?

I love Arch but you may also be interested to try Siduction for similar benefits with less change from what you know (it's still Debian).

Yeah, since broot is a full featured file navigator and operator, you can get anywhere once it's launched. I have alt+up bound to go up a directory, but there are other ways to get around as well.

Broot supports fish out of the box, and you can use its default fish launcher function to change your folder (alt+enter quits broot then performs a cd) or insert a path (the broot command pp quits broot then prints the path, like fzf).

I never learned fish scripting, but if anyone here has they may try to port my Zsh functions, especially to get path completion for partially typed paths. If you're doing that and have questions about the broot config side of the equation, I'm happy to try to help.

FWIW broot is a great fuzzy finding file tree tool that can be used similarly (much better for the task IMO), with a little configuration.

Konsole is excellent. Wezterm is even better, and can pretty much do everything, everywhere.

There's no need to bother with the others if you like either of these.

I don't know what the install process is like for them, but FYI Siduction offers one image that is minimal but with X11, and one minimal without it.