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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What keyboard shortcuts can I use in MS Office 2010?
I work using MS Office 2010, and I want to try and minimize my time on finishing a project with the use of keyboard shortcuts. I already know how to use copy-pasting, so everything else that are ...
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Why is my French Language not showing up on Windows language bar?
I am using the French NF Z71-300 Keyboard using the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator, and some times the keyboard shows for the Language Bar and other times it does not whenever I restart my computer....
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How to identify what program is stealing keyboard input shortcuts
[Win 10 Home, 64-bit, Build 20H2, fully updated + MS Office +...]
I just updated NVidia GeForce experience to V3.22.0.32 and it has provided/updated the in-game overlay that uses a number of keyboard ...
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How to disable a software from accessing a specific key stroke?
I need to have a software called AA.exe opened in background.
But, every time I press down (left) ctrl, AA will execute an action, lets say AA mutes the computer's sound, or AA freezes the screen.
How ...
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Cycling through splits and maintaining fullscren in tmux with neovim navigation
I use tmux with Neovim as a software developer (on Debian 10).
I'm having the following two issues and after much investigating still can't find a solution that suits me:
I would like to cycle ...
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MacOS - How to switch between windows, irrespective of the app?
I wish to switch between windows the way I used to do it on MicroSoft Windows.
On Windows 10 for instance, the OS doesn't care what app my screen is currently focused on. If I have two Firefox windows,...
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Shortcut for moving to the beginning of an indented block in Sublime Text 3?
I am writing the body of a loop which is indented as
>(place that I want my cursor to go to)
for i in range(1,10):
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(several lines of code)
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Use Shift+Key combination in Teamviewer iPad --> OS X 10.15
I am connecting from iPad to a Mac running 10.15 and TeamViewer. Shift modifier works to input capital letters, but it does not when I give a key combination, such as Shift+Enter to evaluate cells in ...
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Shortcut for “Select Folder” in Windows Folder picker
Is there a shortcut for "Select Folder" button in attached screenshot.
Until that point I can do everything with keyboard but at final step I need mouse because tabbing multiple times is ...
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Command + Tab on Big Sur only Cycles Apps - Don't alternate back and forth between 2 Apps
As the title says, I remember Command + Tab used to cycle between only 2 Apps. So, if I had 10 Apps opened it would cycle to the next in only one Command + Tab press and then BACK to the App it cycled ...
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Is there a keyboard shortcut to uncheck, not toggle, a checkbox?
If looking at a webpage checkbox you know whether it needs to be toggled with mouse or spacebar to uncheck. However, with tools that simulate keyboard usage I am not aware of a way to definitively ...
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Spanish letters on German keyboard
I am using a German keyboard layout and I would like to add the Spanish letters to the keys.
Is there a way to add the Spanish letter ñ to the keybind: "Alt-Gr n" and the letter Ñ to the ...
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QMK - What is the Context Menu keycode?
I am trying to define a keymap for the context menu in my QMK enabled keyboard (EZ Planck). Is there a specific keycode for the context menu? I don't want to use shift+F10 because it is not exactly ...
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Box with dotted lines and zero when using ctrl+left mouse click in a webpage
I'm wondering which is the meaning of the number zero which appears when I use ctrl+left mouse click in a webpage. I didn't find an explanation online.
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ctrl + ` shortcut doesn't work as expected in VS Code
I found about the shortcut ctrl + ` to toggle between editor and terminal in vs code. The shortcut was working flawlessly, I could toggle between the two easily. But then I tried to change the ...
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How do I use xmodmap to reprogram both NumLock and Shift+NumLock?
I'd like to stop my NumLock key toggling numlock on and off, but also make it do something useful.
I thought it might be nice to remap it to the "calculator" button so I can easily bring up ...
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Home/End Key in Chrome stopped working - but only for one profile
Home/End key can be used in any scrollable Chrome page usually.
On one of my Chrome profiles (my main one), it has stopped working, however it works everywhere else as normal (other Chrome profiles, ...
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OS X Show in Enclosing folder shortcut - Catalina
This is a previous reference to this functionality
https://superuser.com/questions/138939/os-x-enclosing-folder-shortcut
Previously:
go to system preferences > keyboard > shortcuts > App ...
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How to make it such that WIN+B doesn't snap your mouse to the notification tray?
Whenever you use win+b to hotkey to the notification tray (system tray), it'll snap your mouse to whatever you hit enter or space to "select" that icon.
This actually messes up subsequent ...
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How to free the PrtScr button from Snip & Sketch for other programs to use?
I can't assign Print Screen button as a hotkey for ShareX, because Snip & Sketch has it registered.
This article Disable Snipping Tool - Microsoft Community advised me to:
Go to services.msc and ...
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When I press certain keys together it triggers other keys
For example, a problem I'm having is when I press the letters F and K and J, on google chrome it goes up to the search bar and highlights different tabs. When I'm just on the desktop and do that ...
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can you set keyboard shortcut to toggle a System Preferences setting on mac
I very frequently have to go into System Preferences to toggle a trackpad setting or change the display color settings inside accessibility. I can't seem to find a way to be able to do these through ...
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How can I set a custom menu shortcut for Mark as Played in the macOS Podcasts app?
I did find the documentation at:
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/create-keyboard-shortcuts-for-apps-mchlp2271/mac
and was able to set a menu shortcut for the menu option.
However, the ...
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How do you post a comment in excel only using the keyboard?
To begin a comment, it's easy enough: Alt + R + C. What I can't figure out is how to post the comment using the keyboard. Pressing Esc just exits without posting the comment and pressing Enter just ...
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Shortcut keys for Extensions
How to add the shortcut key of extensions in the brave browser?
There is no option of adding a keyboard shortcut key for the extension in the brave browser.
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How to press insert on a keyboard without numpad or insert [duplicate]
Hello I have a mini gaming keyboard (60%) how can i press Insert? it doesn't have that key
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How can I get all the “hidden” key-bindings on my Linux?
I am using Ubuntu 20.10, with GNOME 3.38 and X11.
I have an Italian keyboard. My keyboard does not have tilde or backtick printed on it.
On this question I discovered I can type tilde with AltGr+^ (~) ...
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Keyboard Shortcut for Windows Explorer to fit the width of the name column to the longest file name in the folder
I would like to use a keyboard shortcut to fit the Name column to the longest name of the files in the folder so the file names don't get truncated with .... In a desktop you can use [Ctrl + +] to fit ...
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Keyboard shortcuts at a Windows remote desktop from Mac
I could not find if this question has already been asked.
In my current project, I log in to a Windows remote desktop server using a browser. My local machine is a Mac. The standard Windows keyboard ...
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Is there a shortcut key or an extension that can active specific Google Chrome devtool panel?
This is a Chrome devtool, there are some panels in it... "Network", "Console","Sources","Elements",
Is there any shortcut key or extension that can active ...
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MS Word behaves differently than Wordpad when typing certain Unicode characters
I have this setup:
Windows 10 x64 20H2
Italian or US keyboard layout (tested both)
On MS Word 2019, I wanted to type the character ḛ (Latin Small Letter E with Tilde Below). Its hex code is U+1E1B, ...
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Disabling F1 key: lots of problems
I want to disable the commands associated to my Fn keys in particular the F1 command which activates the sleep mode. In addition Fn keys alone are not present in the Keyboard Shortcuts (in the ...
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How to copy GitHub repository SSH URL in web browser using a keyboard shortcut?
GitHub repository SSH url:
git@github.com:user/repo.git
I am using Chrome on Windows 10 and clone a lot of repositories from GitHub and having to click "Code" button then copy the url is ...
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macOS accessibility: can't move focus to “Finder wants to make changes” password prompt/window using keyboard
I tried Googling for a solution to this issue but can't find one. When deleting certain files/folders, Finder will pop up a window prompting me to enter my password. If another app/window steals the ...
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How do I set a custom keyboard shortcut to open the Start menu in Windows 10?
I use both Windows and macOS, probably macOS more frequently. When using my Windows laptop muscle-memory has me hitting AltSpace to bring up Searchlight to launch programs. In Windows you can get the ...
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2 different keys type the same letter
Recently I got a new keyboard with ISO layout and Spanish distribution.
The problem is that one key does the same function as another different key
as seen on the image, those 2 keys should type ...
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Cant type in hashtags, brackets or square brackets
i have a problem with my PC, i can't use certain key with Alt, my alt tab and alt shift functions perfectly but it's only the hashtags, brackets and square brackets that doesn't work. This is very ...
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Custom physical keyboard that launches apps
Is it possible to make a custom keyboard (or use one already made) and assign to each key an application to be launched when the key is pressed?
Something that works like a physical dock (for Mac ...
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Disable or prevent Teams global keyboard shortcusts
I use CTRL + ALT + M to add Comments in a Word document. However, with Microsoft Teams installed it captures that shortcut for Microphone Mute/Unmute, no matter if the application is running or a call ...
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Create a custom keyboard shortcut in stackedit.io? [migrated]
As a user of the stackedit.io web app, can I create custom keyboard shortcuts for my own commonly used tasks?
It seems like the Settings YAML would provide for that option, and there is a reference to ...
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How to create a shortcut in Microsoft Outlook to send en email the next morning
I am trying to achieve the following task :
It sometimes happen that I work a bit too late on the evening. I think it is a good practice not to send emails at anytime during the evening/night if there ...
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How can I reprogram keys of one of my keyboards?
Not sure if this is a question for this forum but:
I have a laptop and a connected keyboard (where some keys are not working properly). I would like to edit the keys so that all keys on the left side (...
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Getting a “Ctrl” input when changing the languages
When I am switching between languages I always get a "Ctrl" input the 2nd time I use "Alt + Shift". Sometimes the "Ctrl" input is messing with my hotkeys in other ...
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How to customize shortcut keys on Git Bash Terminal (Windows 10)
How can I customize shortcut keys on Git Bash Terminal ?
When I use the Option -> Keys, it only allows to turn on or off the features. What I want is to change the key combinations.
Git Bash ...
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How can I change the Alt+7 shortcut in microsoft edge?
I sometimes like to use these quotation marks: „“ Since my keyboard does not have these (the standard quotation marks are "), I enter them using their unicode code. When I do this in my browser (...
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Make mouse wheel behave like arrow keys for camera movement in RTS game
I want my mouse wheel to work like the arrow keys on the keyboard, to move the camera in a game the same way I can do it with wheel left/right, which I could bind via the mouse software. But I could ...
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keyboard shortcut super+Q kills all active windows and then Enter key also in some windows
i have a terrible problem with the key super or the word super followed by the enter key.
Problem:
if i press keyboard shortcut super+Q the active windows is killed. first it dosent matter what kind ...
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How to make VScode accept my keymapping
Short question:
Is there a way to force VSCode to just follow the keymapping defined by xkb? It seems to have a keymapping of its own when it comes to the right-shift and up arrow, this ruins my touch ...
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left ctrl + left shift + z, x, c, or m not working
I'm not able to use the ctrl_L+shift_L+letter shortcut if "letter" is one of z, x, c, or m.
For instance: the shortcut ctrl+shift+c used for the terminal is set correctly (also because it's ...
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Input language shortcut on MacOS
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I regularly use at least 3 languages, so I have the standard shortcut for switching the layouts(cmd+space). This works well if there are only 2 languages, EN->RU and RU->EN, for example....
