Keyboard shortcuts are combinations and oft-struck keys that help you work faster, or do more with less typing.
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Ctrl, shift and alt keys stopped working
The Ctrl, Shift and Alt keys on my laptop have stopped working, both the left and right ones. I have searched for solutions to this problem but I cannot find anything that works.
What can the ...
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Gnome Shell Extension Key Binding
What is the simplest way to (globally) bind a key combination (e.g. <Super>+A) to a function in a gnome shell extension?
Inspecting a couple of extensions, I ran into the following code:
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Vim: execute the script I'm working on in a split screen
I'm working on a small python script, which needs frequent execution in order to debug and further develop.
Can I split the vim screen and execute my script on one part with a keystroke?
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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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Windows 7 keyboard shortcut Windows Key + D doesn't work
For some unknown reason, the shortcut Win+D stopped working.
All the others still work, like Win+E to open up the Explorer, Win+M to minimize all the windows and so on.
Any ideas why this happens ...
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Disabling Function Keys in Windows 8 with Autohotkey
I would need to use Autohotkey to disable Function keys ( F1 -F12 ) on my Lenovo ideapad u310, running a Windows 8. I need this in order to use the F1-F12 in applications such as Ableton Live. ...
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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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Keyboard Shortcut to Swap Mouse Buttons
I use my mouse with both hands and like to switch back and forth for comfort reasons. However, this is made difficult by needing to go through about a zillion layers of menus to swap the buttons each ...
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How to disable Utility Manager (Windows Key + U)
How do I disable the Windows + U hotkey in Windows XP? Alternatively, how do I stop the utility manager from being active? The two are related. The utilty manager is currently providing a potential ...
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How to disable Ctrl+Shift keyboard layout switch (for the same input language) in Windows?
In Windows (XP at least), when there are two or more keyboard layouts for the same input language, pressing Ctrl+Shift switches the keyboard layout. Where can this be disabled or changed to another ...
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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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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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Why does the control key get “stuck” when debugging in VS2010?
Sometimes the Ctrl key gets stuck somehow during debug sessions in Visual Studio 2010, and when I press Shift+F5 to stop debugging, it gets reset (Ctrl+Shift+F5).
This gets very frustrating ...
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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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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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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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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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How do I prevent pages I visit from overriding selected Firefox shortcut keys?
In Firefox, how can I prevent pages from overriding Firefox built-in keyboard shortcuts through Javascript on a per-key basis? Preferably on a per-site basis, too? The most frustrating override is the ...
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Is there a keyboard shortcut to END an application? (more than just alt+f4)
I use Spotify, an application which, like many others, remains running when you close the window. That is to say, when I alt+F4, it doesn't have the desired effect. It only closes the window. The ...
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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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How can I unassign a windows 7 keyboard shortcut?
I've just upgraded to Windows 7. First thing I did was install Launchy, because, well, I really love Launchy! And I always have it mapped to WIN + SPACE but Windows 7 mappes that to preview desktop. ...
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Is there a keyboard shortcut to highlight the selected text in MS Word 2007?
I have done a bit of searching and cannot find a keyboard shortcut for this command in Microsoft Word 2007. I am not talking about simply making a text selection. (that would be a no brainer) What I ...
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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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Notepad++ keyboard shortcut to toggle “Find Result” window
Is there a keyboard shortcut to toggle "Find Result" windows? Or can this be configured in the Shortcut Mapper? I seem cannot find the setting.
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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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Enable/Disable a network adapter with a keyboard shortcut
I started out trying to use a shortcut to display the Local Area Connection Status window on my desktop by creating a shortcut and assigning it Ctrl+, (comma).
Windows didn't like that, so it added ...
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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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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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How to disable the Option-Space key combination for non-breaking spaces?
How to disable the annoying Option-Space key combination for non-breaking spaces?
This is very very annoying in Eclipse or the terminal as I often type the non-breaking space instead of a regular ...
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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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how to change Alt + Shift + V shortcut in mac
For some reason, alt+shift+v creates this char 'â—Š'.
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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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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Keyboard shortcut to minimize Remote Desktop
Is there a way, using the keyboard, to switch from a maximized (full screen) Remote Desktop Connection back to the main computer?
I have about 4 Remote Desktop connections that I am switching between ...
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How do I switch between applications in Windows 8?
What are some ways that I can switch between applications in Windows 8, using the keyboard and/or mouse?
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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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caret navigation (getting a text cursor) in Google Chrome?
I use Google Chrome on OSX. Is there a way, within the browser, to get a text cursor that will allow me to navigate through text, selecting and copying text using only the keyboard?
I've looked at ...
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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 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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Chrome keyboard shortcut to “close other tabs”?
In Chrome we can close all the tabs in a window while keeping a selected one open.
Is there a keyboard shortcut to "close other tabs"?
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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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PowerPoint slide sorter / editor keyboard shortcut
whats the keyboard shortcut to go to (and from?) the slide sorter and the editor?
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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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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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How do I alternate tabs in Linux GNOME terminal?
I like to open several tabs in GNOME terminal when I work. In Firefox, you can switch between tabs using Ctrl-Tab or Ctrl-Shift-Tab. How do I get the same functionality in GNOME terminal?
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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 ...
