Re: (Not Sawfish) Hand health and my "handy modifier" hack

[Pat Regan <thehead patshead com>]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:28:05 +0900 (JST)
Teika Kazura <teika lavabit com> wrote:

> I wrote a "handy modifier hack" (for Linux only) which allows you to 
> reduce use of pinkies in keyboard in typical cases. The above sentence
> is in its README. I haven't got time to advertise it yet, but if
> you're interested, visit:
> 
> http://gitorious.org/at-home-modifier/at-home-modifier
> 
> I can't live without it any more.

This looks like such a brilliant idea!  I downloaded, installed, and
configured it with no problems.

Unfortunately, I can't use it at all.  I bound spacebar to shift and it
works as a shift key.  I seem to type too fast for it.  Quite often my
spaces just don't go through at all, every so often I get no space and
a stray upper case.

It works fine if I force myself to slow down...  That's a compromise
I'm not willing to make, though.  I think my problem is that I start
depressing the next key before I finish releasing the previous one.

Pat