Win - Tab for the overview, you can then add virtual desktops in the top row. switching between them with Ctrl-Win-L/R-Arrow.
Works the same on the current KDE :-)
I have bound the switching to modifierkey (on the mouse)-Mousewheel L/R, so i can switch desktops with the mouse only :-)
Now if Windows and KDE would just remember which programs belong on which desktop, that would be nice.vim enters the chat
We don’t negotiate with terrorists here
Surprised top comment isn’t “just install linux”
I’ve been stuck in vim for 10 years, it WONT LET ME LEAVE!!
I use Win+X, Win+E, and Win+R literally everyday.
Ctrl+backspace deletes the previous word. Now if I could just form the muscle memory.
Yes, but it is also sometimes something different. I have it in muscle memory, and sometimes have to retype everything because I accidentally navigate the browser back one step…
Just enabling Dark Mode in MS Office apps makes me god emperor of technology at work.
When I used to sell tickets on the railway, I noticed that the ticketing programme had underlined letters, so I tried doing alt + those letters and it worked. I spent an evening shift at a remote outstation getting to grips with the shortcuts, then when it came to doing the morning rush at a busier station, it was talk of the town.
I worked at a call centre for a shopping channel years ago, at a time when they were trying to get everyone to ditch this DOS-based ordering programme where you mainly use the F keys for operations in favour of this user-friendly GUI where you could do everything with the mouse, and would you believe, people were routinely faster with the keyboard. I suppose it hadn’t occurred to them that anyone can get used to doing keyboard controls if they’re sat at a computer eight hours a day.
Since we’re talking about Windows:
WinKey+.to open up the secret emoji/symbols toolbox. 🫛
I’ll have to try that, but I’ve been using
Win+;. It opens an emoji picker and puts the focus in a search field so you can type “shrug” or something and often just hit Enter to choose the single result.It’s ; as in ;)
At least, thats how I like to think of it.
It does the same thing on KDE Plasma!
I discovered this at work when I fat fingered Winkey + L. No work was done that day.
Yes! Someone saw me add 😎 to a document I was grading once and it blew their mind. “Wait! What did you just do? How did you get that menu?” I try to teach people, but they almost never remember. They praise me for my navigation skills, but they don’t care to learn basic stuff like alt+tab/shift+alt+tab/win+tab.
I usually don’t use alt+tab, but alt+shift+tab is a new one for me, thanks!
Which annoyingly only has a small subset of the emojis, making me have to use seach anyway.
Better than nothing I guess.Also it used to lag like crazy, idk if it still does.
Typing
(windows)in Teams helpfully replaces the word with a dinosaur 🦖 icon.
Ctrl + v, ctrl + z, shift + ctrl + v
What does shift + ctrl + v do?
Pastes without formatting.
Unless you have teams as the forefront app, then it makes a teams call to the group you are chatting with and you hate the programers who figured Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, Project, PowerPoint…should all do that and teams should be different
This is the way
Ctrl Y is the opposite of z, undo/redo
I read every comment and I’m pretty sure I’ve got something most of you don’t know. control and left or right will move by one word at a time in text. if you hold shift with this, you can highlight.
I find this is incredibly useful after I use Alt d or Control-L. in most browsers including most file browsers, this will take you to your address bar. then you can chop up your URL.
I did see somebody mention shift insert. I don’t know if they mentioned shift delete which cuts.
edit:
win+e to open file explorer. win+d to show desktop.
I had to write an essay in an exam setting once and all the keyboard controls like that were disabled. Worst 20 minutes ever
I would be so frustrated I might try to smoke a cigarette in the test
Even better:
Win + Space (Win or Super + Space in Linux also) changes keyboard languages. I’m not seeing that anywhere in here either.
I hate tripping that one. I actively remove my “alternate” keyboards so I never trip it. on windows, one of my emacs binds trips it. so frustrating.
You can delete keyboard languages you don’t want, and that won’t happen anymore (because you narrow the choice)
I write in portuguese and english mostly, when keys fall out of place it’s because I accidentally pressed win+space (rare) but just do it again
Long IT nerd here, I’ve known about those shortcuts for a long time. Its interesting as I left the IT industry about 12 years ago and work in an unrelated field. Half the time I talk to our tech support guys, I know more than them. My fellow colleaugues think I’m like Merlin the magician.
Oh shit there’s a shortcut to do that? I’ve just been dragging one window to the side and then clicking the other when the thingy pops up, like some kind of caveman! 😩
I don’t feel like that method is inferior, it’s just different. Especially depending on the kind of work you’re doing, keyboard or mouse may feel more efficient.
That’s a reverse keyboard shortcut.
Here’s another one: When you have multiple windows open, grab one by the title bar with a click-and-hold and shake it around with your mouse. This will cause all your open windows except the one you grabbed to minimize.
I don’t know how the fuck anyone is meant to discover that naturally, or what would possess anyone to even try. I think someone at Microsoft just put it in there as a joke, so people can incessantly post this exact same “did you know this thing about Windows???” thing on the internet constantly.
In other news, double clicking the window menu (in the upper left, aka the “staple box”, which later became the mini-icon in Windows 95 and later) to this very day is a shortcut to close a window that nobody who isn’t old enough to remember what 5.25" floppy disks looked like will know about. This is a holdover from, I believe, Windows 2.0. But it still works in modern Windows to this very day.
I have to disable the shake gesture on machines that I regularly use because I often trigger it by accident. I don’t even know how, but it happens often enough to be annoying.
Man just wait till you see what you can do with Win+Tab.
It’s like alt+tab but worse!
And Win+V
Same! And I’m a millennial.
In highschool I blew my HTML teacher’s mind when I showed her this. She had been manually resizing windows for years.
To be fair, window snapping in Windows is a rather recent feature. I think it was introduced in Windows 7.
This is what I do. Without looking it up, I have a whisper of a thought that
win + arrowis used to, like, rotate the screen or switch monitors or something…CTRL + ALT + {ARROW}rotates the screenI cant seem to get that one to work, but ctrl + win + arrows changes the active desktop and minimizes all windows.
Sometimes it’s something simple like CTRL-C, then CTRL-V and the person watching you is like: wait how did you do that?!
You joke.
I had a hardcore boomer who worked mainframes - he was a mainframe wizard - refuse a redundancy payment (at age 60 - would have been a year plus wages). He was told if he didn’t take it, he would be moved to a team elsewhere. He shows up in my team and I had to teach him how to do copy paste. Then the shortcuts blew his mind.
He still used a pen and paper to change passwords (kept a small pile of them on his desk, and none were labeled but that’s another story).
You joke.
I highly doubt that was a joke. It is unsettlingly common among even those who use computers daily.
Haha I remember someone at a front desk grumbling about how they couldn’t find the clock, and without looking at their screen I asked them to press F11. The way they looked at me when that solved it was priceless.
And then you absolutely blow their fucking mins with WIN+V
I’ve been a Linux user for so long. Clipboard history was a thing almost two decades before Windows got it. I don’t think it is coded to Win+V though – CTRL-ALT-V is what my muscle memory is telling me…
Middle mouse button paste is the bees knees though ;)
Well, depends on the clipboard manager or desktop environment what the default shortcut is. On KDE, it is Win+V.
Ctrl+alt+V for Linux? Which distro?
I just switched to Mint and have been trying to find a way to do clipboard history on mine lol
I presumed KDE Plasma. But there is so many variations among linux desktops and distros :)
I have to use Windows computers from time to time. It’s so frustrating to middle click and nothing happens
fun fact: old school command-line users know all about keyboard shortcuts and we love them. We just never became managers, because fuck that.
Shift insert
Cd…
cd…s nuts
Its cd … Not cd…
I’m on mobile and am sure I wrote it like that but android tends to try to take away the spaces. Like. This. Yeah
When’s I hit cd SPACE period period it takes away the space.
So yeah thanks for noting kids would’ve got misinfo
For the absolute longest time (at least from Windows 95 through Windows 7, perhaps even later version but I dunno on that), every now and then after you exit a game, you can’t properly drag and drop nor double click anything on the desktop.
Eventually I found a particular game that would consistently cause this issue, which got me wondering what all the game was doing upon exit. I theorized that maybe it left the keyboard buffer in something of a goofy state.
So, I started with the thought that Windows must be thinking that a key is still being held down when it wasn’t. And sure enough, just tapping the Esc key managed to refresh the keyboard buffer and resolve the issue.
You should easily be able to see the effects of this bug manually by holding down Esc and trying to use the mouse, stuff just ain’t gonna work right. So if you ever happen to encounter this bug, just tap the Esc key to refresh the keyboard buffer.
Windows users: Press ctrl + alt + shift + windows key + L. Go on, try it.
You’re welcome. You can never unlearn this knowledge now.
I’m on linux, please just say what this does.
If you’re on Linux, you really should be knowledgeable enough to use a search engine.
I'll save you the trouble this time.
(It opens LinkedIn in the default web browser.)
There’s nothing wrong with asking easily searchable questions in threads. Either one person can ask and one person can answer or EVERYONE can search it on their own.
Yup! Also we’re on social media - may as well be social with eachother.
Oh, I thought this was asocial media been over here avoiding people n shit…
This is so fucking dumb that I had to look it up anyways, to be sure you’re not joking. Turns out, it is true.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2070843/behold-the-dumbest-windows-shortcut-of-them-all.html
Holy fuck, that’s criminally stupid.
I am rustled by this comment more than I should be.
Fuck that noise
Oh awesome another thing to be mad about
I haven’t ever uses D LinkedIn, and I never will.
I’m the Hackerman of my workplace by using shift+tab to jump one cell to the left in Excel.
tab --> cell to the right ist selected (next cell)
shift+tab --> cell to the left is selected (previous cell)
This is a standard shortcut and works most places where Tab works. Forms, buttons, etc.
Web browsers.
I did not know that. I thought it was Excel exclusively. But many people who use Excel don’t seem to know of this shortcut.
Mate… a ton of people think Excel is the “Checkered Word” and use it to write letters.
Others send me tables in a Word document… Dunno which I hate more.
Who art thou prometheus that steals this knowledge from the gods to deliver it on to us mortals?
