Keyboard shortcuts are combinations and oft-struck keys that help you work faster, or do more with less typing.

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How to bind super and arrow keys to windmove in Emacs?

I'm trying to bind Super and the arrow keys, (s-up, s-down, etc) to change windows in Emacs. Unfortunately I'm having trouble setting it correctly. I am running Kubuntu 13.04 with Emacs 24.3.1. ...
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KDE UI-treeviews: keyboard exploring

These UI elements do not respond to left and right keyboard arrows OOTB. Expected behaviour was to expand / contract tree nodes that contain children. Any way to make them behave as every other ...
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Unidentifiable alert to “cancel transfers”

About 3 months ago, I purchased a Dell XPS 13 running Windows 8. Ever since, whenever I try to shut down/restart my machine, I get an alert that looks like this: This doesn't happen each time but ...
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How to make window button + tab button working in window7 home basic?

I tried a shortcut effect by Winkey+Tab on one of my computers and it worked, but when I tried the same combination on my laptop it didn't work. I searched it on Google and followed the instructions ...
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Plex controls without focus

I asked this question on the Plex support forums, but that didn't prove to be fruitful so I thought I'd come to the trusty stack exchange. What I'm trying to do is control Plex using the media ...
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Is there a Windows program to create a new custom shortcut instead/beside ALT-TAB (cycling windows)?

I have to make a transcription (audio to text dictation) and have to constantly alternate between SPACE (Play/Pause in Foobar2000) and ALT-TAB (switch between Foobar and MSOffice). I want to be able ...
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Assign keyboard shortcut to pause music in website

I use saavn.com for listening to bollywood music. It's a great service but they don't have native mac app so I can't control it using keyboard media keys. There must be a way to use keyboard media ...
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Win Key + # beyond 9?

If I press the Win Key + a number I can switch to or open the program pinned to the task bar. This works up to 9. If I want to get beyond 9, and into the double digits what do I press?
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Gmail has taken over an important keyboard shortcut (cmd+<), how can I override this?

I am using Chrome on OSX, on a norwegian keyboard. I have set up cmd+< as an osx keyboard shortcut for "Move focus to next window", which I use to cycle between windows in Chrome. A while ago ...
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Control game audio and chat audio separately with keyboard shortcuts

I have Logitech G510 Keyboard with all of these extra "G-Buttons" on the side, is there a way I can put these buttons to use by controlling game/chat volume separately when pressing the buttons? ...
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Is there a paste-replace shortcut?

Hello all :) This is be a petty request, but it is like an itch to me right now for a specific project: There are shorcuts for copy and paste, but I often find myself moving bits of text between each ...
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Scrolling the remote desktop in window mode

I have connected to the remote desktop and using the system in windowed mode(not full screen), as only windowed mode supports keyboard shortcuts like ctrl alt end, alt page up etc. However is there a ...
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What do Ctrl-J, Ctrl-M and Ctrl-I mean in Microsoft Notepad?

I just noticed, by a fluke, that when hitting Ctrl+J or Ctrl+M in Microsoft Notepad (on Windows 7), it has and same effect as Enter. Hitting Ctrl+I has and same effect as Tab. This has no practical ...
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how to change Alt + Shift + V shortcut in mac

For some reason, alt+shift+v creates this char '◊'. I would like to free this keyboard shortcut, so it will be possible to be used in other programs. How to?
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uzbl-tabbed keyboard shortcut for closing tabs?

I can open tabs by typing "gn" I can change them by using "gt" and "gT". But I can't close tabs from within in the browser. I looked at the Readme and that stuff is way over my head. I don't know if ...
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Changing shortcut keys in Microsoft lync

I'm trying to change the default shortcuts in lync. My problem is that I use emacs. A LOT. And so my fingers instinctively press Ctrl-B to go backwards. This turns on bold. For reasons that I haven't ...
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How can I “bind” a key combination to start a Windows 8 application? [duplicate]

Is it possible to assign shortcut keys to windows 8 applications? For instance, I want calendar to be easily accessible so that i can just press one key or a combination like WINDOWS+C and it shows me ...
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Shortcut for toggling the space bar's function

I'm trying to make an AutoHotkey script for making Ctrl+Space toggle the space bar's function. The default function is space. When Ctrl+Space is pressed, the function changes to em space. Search em ...
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Is it possible to show key presses and mouse input visually?

Is there a way to visually show if keypresses and programmed mouse-buttons are properly sending their input? Obviously, my keyboard is registering letter keys. But I can't tell whether my programmed ...
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Possible to set keyboard shortcuts for items in context menus?

Is there a way to set (non-native) keyboard shortcuts for items in context menus? In Firefox, there's an addon I use that adds entries to the right-click context menu. I'd like to be able to engage ...
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How can you reverse the direction of alt-period in Bash?

In Bash, you can press Alt-. to insert the last argument of the previous command. If you press it multiple times, it cycles through the last arguments of all of the commands in your history. However, ...
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Excel copy downwards [duplicate]

In MS Excel, if you select two cells containing text like "x1", "x2" and drag the bottom-right corner of the selection, it continues the pattern "x3", "x4", "x5" etc. Is there a way to do this using ...
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Is there a keyboard shortcut to select the text that has just been pasted?

I'm wondering if there is a relatively universal keyboard shortcut for selecting whatever text has just been pasted (similar to the shift-arrow shortcuts etc. like those in Text-Editing Keyboard ...
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EMACS - SIGINT under Windows

Ctrl-c Ctrl-c is used in Emacs shells to kill the running process. After an upgrade to Windows 7, this has stopped working for me. i.e. it doesn't kill the running process. Instead it just ...
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Oracle SQL Developer arrow shortcut keys

I have Oracle SQL Developer version 3.0.04 installed. I have the default shortcut keys. My issue is with the arrow keys. Left is assigned to Move Backward within the Code Editor. Right is assigned ...
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In Word, formatting disappears when italics shortcut is pressed while cursor is within a word

I'm sure there's an easy solution to this one, but it's such a specific situation that it's hard to Google for it. What happens is this: In Word, I press ctrl-I. I type a word. I press ctrl-I again, ...
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Can I make Ctrl+alt NOT act like AltGr on windows?

Many applications like Google docs uses Ctrl+Alt short cuts like Ctrl+Alt+2 for heading 2, Ctrl+Alt+m for comments etc. On international keyboards on Windows Ctrl+Alt is how ever mapped to AltGr, so ...
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One key for one language

If you have only 2 languages on Windows to switch, you can use Ctrl+Shift or Alt+Shift to switch between them. But if the count of languages is more than 2 (I have 4), it becomes tricky to use the ...
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How can I get IE10/IE8 to pass “alt-d” through to the webpage?

My primary mode of operation at work involves using an ancient piece of browser-based software that provides keyboard shortcuts through accessKey="D"-style attributes on HTML form inputs. Of the few ...
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Keyboard shortcut to highlight the text in adobe reader

What is the keyboard shortcut to highlight the text in the adobe reader on Mac? Do some settings in adobe reader preferences need to be changed to use it? For some strange reason I am not able to ...
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Sublime like style “Goto Anything” plugin for Notepad++ or Windows Application [closed]

I primarily use Notepad++ for coding, I just wished it had a Sublime-like ability to type function names/commands, find files etc just by typing: I'm looking for either a Notepad++ plugin or even ...
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Can't bind Alienware multimedia key to KDE shortcut

I am trying to create an entry in "Cutom Shortcuts" settings in KDE (Ubuntu). I can set the trigger to e.g. Ctrl+Alt+X but the button I'm interested in is the multimedia key which, under Windows, ...
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How do I see all set shortcuts within Firefox?

Is it possible to find a centralized location and/or listing of all set keyboard shortcuts used within Firefox, including keyboard shortcuts enabled by miscellaneous add-ons? NOTES I've seen Windows ...
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Tmux key-table explanation

I was reading through the tmux man pages in order to understand the different options for bind-key and bumped into the -t flag: If -t is present, key is bound in key-table: the binding for command ...
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How can I make my laptop F-key's work as F-keys?

I purchased a new laptop with Windows 8. It's F buttons don't work as F buttons, they seem to work by default as the weird icons on them, such as media controls. To "refresh" a browser window with the ...
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Office 2007: assign a different keyboard shortcut to “find”

I'm trying to assign a single key (F2) to the "find" command, but I cannot find it in the list of commands. As you can see here, I can see the "find" command when it comes to add it to the Quick ...
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Can not turn on wireless card using on board keyboard. How can I override the function keys using an external usb keyboard?

I have a Medion E5211 laptop, with Windows Vista Home Edition. The only way to turn on the wireless card is by pressing Fun+F1 key. There is no external switch. I checked that the keys are not ...
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Windows US International keyboard umlaut shortcut stops working after a while

I am using a German keyboard with US, International layout. At the beginning, when I start my PC, all umlaut combinations for ä (ALT GR+q), ü (ALT GR+z) and ö (ALT GR+p) are working perfectly fine. ...
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How to customize Paste Value Excel Short Cut

I was reading in this other post about how to set up a macro to past values in Excel. I understand how to create he macro but I would like to set the keyboard shortcut to Ctrl d but excel pops up an ...
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How to revert recent Close tab shortcut changes in latest Chrome Beta? [closed]

Recently in the Chrome Beta channel, they changed the keyboard shortcut Cmd-W (on OS X, Ctrl-W on Windows) from "Close Tab" to "Close Window". Personally its a shortcut I use ALL the time. Since this ...
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Add date shortcut in Notepad++ [duplicate]

In Windows regular Notepad, clicking F5 shows the date (according to region format): 09:36 ‎29/‎04/‎2013 Is there a shortcut in Notepad++ to achieve it? Preferably with no plug-in involved, but ...
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Is it possible to use alt-XYZ shortcuts on Excel on OS X?

I don't want to know the equivalents -- I want to use the same commands. I'm switching between windows at work and a mac at home.
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Switch to a specific input source in OS X

I have a follow-up question to this topic: Switch TO specific input source Asmus posted this answer: I came up with a bit nicer solution in AppleScript, given you know the name of the Keyboard ...
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Some keyboard keys stopped working when control pressed

All of a sudden, some keyboard shortcuts seem to have stopped working in applications. The two I'm noticing it for are "ctrl-k" and "ctrl-w". This is happening across multiple applications which ...
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How to bind function keys in zsh?

Does anyone know how to bind function keys in zsh? I want to be able to use function keys in programs running in my terminal, not bind them to some function in zsh. I've tried putting bindkey "\e[OP" ...
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How to disable command+scroll zooming in openoffice calc

Is there anyway to have command+scroll in OSX do nothing instead of scrolling? I press the keyboard shortcut all the time and it throws my focus off. I have looked extensively in forums, but often the ...
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Is there a shortcut for assigning the current program to a specific spot in the task bar?

In Window 7 you can drag/drop your running applications in the task bar to give them a specific order. Is there a shortcut key combination that allows you to assign the current program to a specific ...
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LXTerminal shortcuts work but also output to console

I installed a netinst of Debian 6, xorg, lxde and lxterminal. When I press Ctrl+Shift+T in the terminal, I get a new tab as expected, but the new tab also displays ^T before the prompt. The same for ...
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How to switch to a certain Window in OS X (opposed to application switching) using keyboard shortcuts?

On a normal day I have several different windows open of all my applications. But for the sake of simplicity I will name one simple example: Chrome A left side of the screen (documentation) Chrome B ...
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Is there a windows 7 shortcut to maximize all windows? [duplicate]

I've got many windows minimized in my taskbar and I'd like to maximize all of them at once. Is there a Windows 7 shortcut to do that?

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