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?

  • OverzeetopOP
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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

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        1 year ago

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