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Sander_Marechal on Sept 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: A programmer’s guide to healing RSI

I suffered from (mild) RSI a few years ago. Mostly in my right hand and arm from using the mouse. At first I switched my mouse for a Logitech Trackman. That helped a lot. Then I decided to use the keyboard as much as possible, which helped even more. The things I use:

- Vim for coding

- Vimperator in my Firefox

- Muttator in my Thunderbird

- Awesome WM as my window manager

Now I only need to use the mouse for graphics applications like Inkscape. It's been a dream so far.

raverbashing on Sept 6, 2012 [–]

Yes

Switching to using the keyboard instead of mouse helped me a lot (even for browsing: Ctrl-L, switching tabs, etc)

And also this: http://www.powerballs.com/

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