Questions tagged [keyboard-shortcuts]
Keyboard shortcuts are combinations and oft-struck keys that help you work faster, or do more with less typing.
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Blocking a shortcut in Windows 10
How can I block the "Ctrl" and "-" shortcut in Windows 10. This shortcut in the sales application that I deal with on a daily basis creates a hidden US special character that ...
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How can I use Caps as a "function" key to activate arbitrary combinations on other keys?
For context I am trying to replicate my hardware-programmable 60% keyboard experience in software for my laptop.
I am using colemak (setxkbap us -variant colemak) on Arch Linux with i3wm and no ...
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Using AutoHotKey to remap Ctrl to Alt while retaining Alt+Tab as Task View hotkey
I am a long (long) time Mac user, who has recently begun working in a company that uses Windows. I am using AutoHotKey to remap the Alt key to Ctrl, to mimic the placement of Mac's cmd key. The issue ...
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How to change any multi-media key from a keyboard behavior to open a different app than the default?
Based on How can I run another app when pressing the calculator key on my keyboard?
I want to know how can I achieve the same thing but for any other key.
Say I want to make the "Search" ...
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Windows 10 hotkey (keyboard shortcut) for switching between speakers [duplicate]
Many times per day I need to switch between different speakers, which I do using my mouse in these 3 clicks as shown here:
I would much prefer if I could press a certain key or combination of keys on ...
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How to use keyboard shortcuts for hidden desktop shortcuts/icons?
I created a shortcut on the desktop and assigned a Keyboard Shortcut to it from the properties menu to it. Now if I assign the hidden attribute, the shortcut gets hidden and Keyboard shortcut stops ...
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Linux use CapsLock as Hyper modifier ONLY IF it is combined with other key
On windows, I can define custom shortcuts with CapsLocks with AutoHotKey like this:
CapsLock & 1::Run, %chromePath%\GoogleChrome.exe
When I press 'CapsLock' alone, it just acts like a normal ...
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What does winkey + slash & backslash do?
Is winkey+\ a defined hotkey in Windows10?
Is winkey+/ a defined hotkey in Windows10?
I am trying to use these in my macro manager but it is refusing to allow me to enter them. Which usually ...
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OS X Keyboard Shortcut for Sublime Text 3 using System Preferences
I'm trying to create a shortcut key binding in Sublime Text 3 on os x 10.15.6 using system preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts. I can't seem to figure out exactly what I'm missing or ...
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Using Vim keybinding to scroll page up and down in tmux on Mac
I'm using Tmux on MacOS10.14.6 and want to scroll up and down with vim's keybindings. I can scroll with the arrow key using Ctrl-b, then [ and then the arrow keys (↑, ↓, ←, →). Instead of the arrow ...
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shortcut for searchbar in applications
I use Windows 8.1 Pro and I mostly use keyboard shortcut for most instead of mouse. But I have a big problem in using keyboard for search some words in applications. I use "Oxford Advanced ...
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How can I start the "Emojy & Symbols" app with a Keyboard Shortcut?
I have a MacBook Pro with Catalina 10.15.6. I need to start the "Emoji & Symbols" app (which is available in the Mac Menu Bar) with a Keyboard Shortcut:
So I showed the Keyboard ...
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Why are certain main menu features not found in the Shortcut mapper settings of Notepad++?
In Notepad++, I want to add a shortcut for Edit > Line Operations > Remove Consecutive Duplicate Lines, but it doesn’t show up in the Shortcut mapper settings, even though I’ve already added one ...
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Launch Plane9 windowed from Logitech G Hub
I have a "music" profile set up on my Logitech G815 keyboard, and I wanted to use a G key to launch Plane9 windowed mode. I theory this seems simple. https://www.plane9.com/Wiki/cmdline ...
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Shift + F10 not functioning the same as the right click context menu key on the keyboard (At least on the Task Bar)
When I press Win + T to access the taskbar and then I press Shift + F10 to get the right click context menu, it gives me this
Unwanted context menu shown above
whereas what I expect if I press the ...
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How do I disable Microsoft Word cascade when I press enter (how to stop the text from moving)?
When I use Microsoft Word and when I am writing a document with many pages, pressing enter makes all of the remaining text onward push down in the document. I don't want the text on subsequent pages ...
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Having a keyboard language not appear when switching using keyboard shortcut
I'm using Windows 10 and have two languages (English, Hebrew) which I use all the time, so I'm using the Alt+Shift keyboard shortcut to switch between one and the other.
I lately started studying ...
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Sending sysrq through the picocom or TigerVNC
I have some VM on qemu, which occasionally freezes.
Thus I need some way to send sysrq to my VM. I use both TigerVNC and picocom, but the appropriate hotkeys (e.g. Alt + PrtScr + B) don't work. ...
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how to enable command line navigation shortcuts in fish shell running in iTerm on Mac
Setup: MacOs Mojave, iTerm, Fish shell 3.0.2, using fisher have theme bob-the-fish installed as well.
Would like to be able to use command line navigation keyboard shortcuts such as ctrl-A to get t ...
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Finish command from history
A couple of years ago I enabled "finish text" command on iTerm2 + ZSH. For example, if I had "git commit" in my command history in a new command window if I typed "gi" "t history" would be viewable ...
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Is it possible to define custom keyboard shortcuts with pcmanfm?
I have seen how to add custom actions to the contextual menu by adding text files to ~/.local/share/file-manager/actions/.
But I would like to link those actions to a keyboard shortcut, to use them ...
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Run VisualBasicScript from keyboard shortcut
I've written a bat file to execute a python script, and to avoid popping up of cmd, I'm calling it through a vbs script. Now I need to execute the python script through vbs script but using keyboard ...
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Windows 10 - F2 won't rename a file - opens Excel instead
I got a computer (Dell Precision) with Windows 10 and the f2 opens an excel and does not rename files.
To change this I tried:
Reset BIOS settings
Change the keyboard mapping to defaults using the ...
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Nvidia Driver is capturing a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+N)
I've Nvidia NVS (Quadro) 4200M display driver (along with Intel HD Graphics3000) in my Dell Latitude e6420 laptop.
The Nvidia driver version is 22.21.13.8628 (in Nvidia Control Panel the driver ...
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Can I change the command bindings back to control bindings on Firefox?
I have been a Linux user for years and just got a Mac. One thing that has been bugging me for the past couple of days is how every program seems to use command for shortcuts instead of Ctrl. ...
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Keyboard Shortcut in "The Social Network" [closed]
In the movie "The Social Network" featuring Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg, there's a scene where Zuckerberg is in a computer lab (presumably working) at a computer when one of his friends ...
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What is the shortcut combination to create a non-breaking space using the keyboard ISO International layout on Debian?
What is the shortcut combination to create a non-breaking space using the keyboard US ISO International layout on Debian 10?
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autohotkey - customize keyboard [duplicate]
I use a laptop with Italian keyboard, but I need the tilde ~ and the backtick ` characters, which my keyboard is not endowed with.
I got to know AutoHotKeys and it seems to fit. But I could not find ...
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How to disable power-off/standby via remote control on raspbian buster
I've recently upgraded from a raspberry pi 3 with raspbian stretch to a pi 4 with raspbian buster. Now, same as before, I also have a remote control attached via USB, and I use thd to hook up certain ...
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How to edit shortcut language in Powerpoint?
I have been working at a company for several years, and that company is using a English installation of Microsoft Powerpoint. In this installation, I've learned the hotkeys, such as Alt→N→X to insert ...
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Mac Open File dialog and using Find to search for files — Keyboard shortcut to select results without using mouse?
For example, in Safari's Open File dialog I can hit Command-F to search for images.
I appear to be forced to use the mouse to select results as the arrow keys don't do it. Only after moving the ...
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Keyboard shortcuts for keyboard keys that don't Work
Is there any program that can help me create keyboard shortcuts to emulate the keyboard keys that are not functioning. For. eg. Can I press Fn + 1 to emulate W and Fn + 2 for Tab. Anything comes to ...
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Refresh more complete than with Ctrl-F5 or Ctrl-Shift-R
I have a html-page (1) which in turn is filled with another html-document (2) by a js-file (3). I use Firefox.
I have modified a href-attribute inside (2), but when I reload (1) with Ctrl-F5, the ...
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Chrome undocumented keyboard shortcuts for images and links
Chrome's list of keyboard shortcuts don't list any that work with the right click menu. (I.e. when you right click, then press a key to do something.)
But there is at least one undocumented shortcut: ...
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Only Ctrl+C combo not working globally on Windows 10 Home (64bit)
My Ctrl+C key-combo seems to have abruptly stopped working globally on all programmes. All other cut/paste/select-all/undo/redo/formatting combos are working.
Using online keyboard testers, the ...
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Disabling Ctrl+Win+Q on Windows
I've been using Ctrl+Win+Q to invoke Slickrun for some time now.
My Windows version is 1809 (OS Build 17763.439)
Now all of a suddent Windows has stolen the shortcut for its own Quck Assist.
How do ...
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how to create customized comment keyboard shortcut in android studio
By using ctrl + / we can comment / uncomment the current line in android studio
and we can create shortcuts commands from
settings->Keymap
now my question is how to create new keyboard shortcut to ...
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How to permanently change Ctrl + C to Ctrl + K in CentOS 7?
I try to use this stty intr ^K in order to change Ctrl + C to Ctrl + K in CentOS 7.
But when I restart my server. It resets to default again.
How can I change it permanently from Ctrl + C to Ctrl + ...
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IntelliJ IDEA : no option to extract to constant in Kotlin files
IntelliJ IDEA offers to extract values to constants.
The shortcut on my machine is Cmd+Alt+C :
However, when I select a string in my Kotlin code and use the shortcut, nothing happens.
When I run ...
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Changed global keyboard shortcut, cannot reset
I am using MacOS Mojave with lots of tools like Keyboard Maestro, Better Touch Tool, Witch and some more.
Now I have somehow remapped the keyboard shortcut Shift + CMD + L, and I cannot use that ...
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VMWare: How to re-enter fullscreen VM after Alt+Tab?
I'm currently developing software on a linux virtual machine that runs inside VMWare Workstation Player 14, which in turn runs on a Windows 10 host. My preferred setup is to have the VM in fullscreen ...
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+ / - keys on non-US keyboards
Many shortcuts require to use the + or - keys.
Example :
zoom or dezoom with Chrome : CTRL + or -.
some websites (such as this one) use + or - keys to do certain actions
(I have a laptop with no ...
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Hot key to focus and raise a window (under cursor) in Win 10?
Is this only me? Sometimes I want to focus and raise a window W that is currently mostly underneath another window. The remaining exposed part of W are mostly some active buttons or links. I only ...
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How to use the function keys in Excel on a Mac?
I have just transferred from Microsoft to Mac.
On my MacBook Pro I cannot use the F# keys in Excel. I used to use F4 to repeat the last action and F9to recalculate.
I have found that CMD+Y does ...
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Switching between languages on windows 10 using keyboard shortcut not as expected
This is probably a simple question. But I'm not familiar with Windows. And i did try searching on google. But I couldn't find an answer. So here it goes.
I want to use the keyboard shortcuts to ...
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Solution to Capslock / Shift every key?
I would like every key to be equivalent to "Shift + " when caps lock is turn on. Currently caps lock only capitalizes letters, not other keys.
So if I press:
'/", then it should be " rather than '
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Any keyboard shortcut to navigate to the most recent worksheet in Microsoft Excel 2010
I'm working with a workbook which has got 11 worksheets. I have frequently switch between worksheets. Mostly I work between different pairs of worksheets. If I use the mouse, sometimes I have to ...
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i3: How to use media keys that show up on separate input device?
I've installed the i3 window manager alongside GNOME desktop on Ubuntu-GNOME 16.04. I'm having trouble getting my media keys working with a Logitech G610 keyboard.
I have the following in my ~/....
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Windows 10: Everything in English except for Keyboard (German)
I'm Austrian - therefore I want my keyboard to be in German, all the time so I can write ü,ö,ä, etc. and not having z and y change places (QWERTZ-keyboard).
But I want all apps, and everything on my ...
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Create shortcut key in firefox to open a URL
My system is Xubuntu 16.04 and I would like to create a shortcut key to open a URL. I don't want a desktop entry to open a URL, I know that I can create a desktop shortcut to open a URL. To be precise:...
