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A mouseless tale: trying for a keyboard-driven desktop

The computer mouse is a wonderful invention, but for the past few months I've been working to use mine as little as possible for productivity and ergonomic reasons. It should not be surprising that there are quite a few open-source applications, utilities, and configuration options that are either designed to or incidentally assist in creating a keyboard-driven desktop.

It should not be surprising that there are quite a few open-source applications, utilities, and configuration options that are either designed to or incidentally assist in creating a keyboard-driven desktop. Even if one does not use a terminal-based email client, the drop-down terminal feature is useful for all sorts of operations where one wants to run a command quickly. Likewise, navigating preference dialogs or using GNOME Software to install a Flatpak package is something that is probably possible to do with keyboard only—but the payoff in learning to do so seems minimal.

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