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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?

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[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

[–] awesomesauce309@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That’s a huge lifesaver. I genuinely was just giving up when I had to type passwords in

[–] Overzeetop@sopuli.xyz -3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Overzeetop@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks - didn't know this existed; I'll give it a shot!