The paper then analyzes how much of the benefits of the graphic user interface are shared by blind users. The paper begins with an explanation of how graphic user interfaces differ from character-based systems in their use of pixels, visual metaphors such as icons and windows, locational and contextual information, and mouse-controlled interaction and random access. Use CatchMouse for moving mouse between displays.This paper examines graphic computing environments, identifies potential problems in providing access to blind people, and describes programs and strategies being developed to provide this access. Use custom keyboard shortcuts in System Preferences to switch workspaces. Use skhd for keyboard mappings and controlling chunkwm. It's not the ideal world yet in the Mac land, but it solves the purpose. Now I use it to move the mouse to the desired display before switching the workspace. Once again, I roamed the stingy streets of the internet and came across CatchMouse. But I was not ready to accept defeat yet. To change workspace on the other display, I had to first move the mouse to that display which made me feel like helpless. But these mapping would change the workspace on only the display which has the mouse pointer. So I was using custom keyboard shortcuts for this which I had set in the System Preferences. Now MacOS enforces a stupid rule that you cannot change workspace (called a Desktop on Mac) via any keyboard mapper unless you disable SIP, which I could not (because reasons). This setup was everything that I wanted from this world for a while, until I got myself a secondary display. Combined, these two powers create the ultimate tiling window setup that one can dream of on a Mac. The creator of chunkwm is also the creator of another piece of art called skhd which can be used to set keyboard mapping for any command. As I started using it, I found it to be as close I could get to i3wm on MacOS. I could not find the scrolls of wisdom, but I did find a niche little program called chunkwm, an almost abandoned program which can be used tile (and control!) the windows. I once again journeyed the fabled lands of the internet in search of the scrolls of wisdom. I was desperate.īut at the end, the desire for more control prevailed. Unable to find any alternative, I am ashamed to admit, I settled. Next, I switched to Amethyst, the most popular, free tiling window manager available on MacOS. Floating windows almost always float over each other and that made to spend all my time shifting focus from one window to another. I had tried setting custom keyboard shortcuts on MacOS, but there weren't any options to switch between windows. I found myself using the trackpad more often than not. As soon as I got a MacBook, I searched through the alleys of the internet for respite. This premature breakup with i3wm hit me hard. I was ready to work at Postman but I was not ready to leave the ultimate power that comes with i3wm. Having worked on solely Linux for the past 6 years and being a convicted felon for the crime to replacing Windows with Linux on any computer I could get my hands on (I actually installed Linux on a work computer assigned to me at a six months internship), I had little choice. When I started work at Postman, I was given a choice between a MacBook and a Windows laptop. The kind of control and power that i3wm provides is, in my opinion, criminal. This aversion to mouse and trackpad (and even arrow keys) led me to a gift from heaven that we mortals call i3wm. I learnt touch-typing around that time too and that made me not want get my fingers off the home row. To avoid using it as much as I can I learnt the keyboard shortcuts of any application that I used more often than once. When I was in college I owned a Dell laptop which had a really sucky trackpad.
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