Do not “kind of want something”. Want it very, very badly and follow through to the end.

I recently got Android 4.1 on my phone, and the very best thing about it so far is this: it finally has a Colemak on-screen keyboard, which is slightly less idiotic than QUERTY. Yay.

Use C++ for compatibility reasons only.

Why is it that so many people are so negative towards things they don't know or don't understand? Open-mindedness seems to be something that must be learned by most, over a very long time. And it seems that it can easily be unlearned if one is not careful.

I got a TypeMatrix Keyboard recently. It has a few buttons for starting up some applications directly, which did not work out of the box in my xmonad setting.

A little playing with xev lets us add a few keys to ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs:

import XMonad                                                                                             
import XMonad.Config.Xfce                                                                                 
import XMonad.Util.EZConfig (additionalKeys)                                                              
 
main = xmonad $ xfceConfig                                                                                
         { modMask = mod4Mask,                                                                            
           terminal = "xfce4-terminal"}                                                                   
         `additionalKeys` [ ((mod4Mask, xK_F5), spawn "virtualbox --startvm Vista"),                      
                            ((mod4Mask, xK_F2), spawn "emacs"),                                           
                            ((mod4Mask, xK_F3), spawn "firefox"),                                         
                            ((mod4Mask, xK_F4), spawn "thunar"),                                          
                            -- Typematrix special keys                                                    
                            -- fn-sleep:                                                                  
                            ((0, 0x1008ff2f), spawn "dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesk\
top.UPower /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend"),                                      
                            -- Web browser                                                                
                            ((0, 0x1008ff18), spawn "firefox"),                                           
                            -- EMail                                                                      
                            ((0, 0x1008ff19), spawn "evolution"),                                         
                            -- Calculator                                                                 
                            ((0, 0x1008ff1d), spawn "xfce4-terminal -e \"ghci\"")                                                                                                     
                          ]

This works very well for me, let me know if you make use of this and whether you needed to change anything!