I've learned about pressing tab to switch from login to password fields embarrassingly recently, half a year ago. Is there any other seemingly common knowledge that eludes me? Enlighten me. Just post something, no matter how obvious.
I just use the mouse for everything, then type on the keyboard.
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Use Ctrl + Left/Right arrow to move the cursor by words instead of by letters. Works for deleting too.
thanks bros, saved
I know about Alt+F4 and Ctrl+C and V
Ctrl shift T in firefox to open a recently closed tab.
ctrl shift n to re-open a recently closed window (all tabs that window had at the time of closing
Also Ctrl shift N to open a recently closed browser window
use ctrl W to close shit threads when noticed
If there is a fn key on your keyboard, fn shift right arrow will select everything from cursor to start of line.
Fn left goes to start of line, fn right goes to end of line.
Check out the Vimium extension for Chrome/Firefox/etc.
Depends on the keyboard, not a standard/common thing at all
fn key is a thing on all laptop keyboards, even my chink shit 5$ keyboard has it
it is definitely not a standard thing, but I would argue that it is quite common and not a lot of laptop keyboard users know about these shortcuts.
Thanks anon, but it's not really what I'm looking for
Challenge accepted
You can also press Shift-Tab to move from the password field to the username field. Once you start using keyboard shortcuts for everything, you're going to start flipping your shit when you encounter sites and programs that have paid 0 attention to convention and force you to use your mouse.
YouTube has a bunch of hotkeys, for example, too many to list, but look them up. The site used to be easier to navigate by keyboard, but it's still OK now.
Is Vimium better than Tridactyl?
This works with the home key as well, not just FN.
Yes, but I brought it up because I think more know about the home/end keys than the fn key.
>I've learned about pressing tab to switch from login to password fields embarrassingly recently, half a year ago
what in the frick
Yeah, I'd enter the login, then click on the password field with the mouse and enter the password, every time
hitting tab to switch between things works on more than just the login screen.
also, shift-tab goes back instead of forward
For a few hours, try using your computer using only your keyboard. Reach for the mouse only as a last resort, after googling (using a different device) for how do do the action in question on a keyboard.
You don't necessarily need to actually use your computer that way normally, there's lots of actions that the mouse is just better suited for. But it's a great way to learn keyboard shortcuts and discover other ways to do stuff.
I am now reminded that I can't navigate to shutdown in the windows 10 start menu and I fricking pissed about it.
what fricking genius thought win+u should open settings
wouldn't put it past microsoft to remove the ability to manually turn off the computer at all in future versions.
Try Alt+F4 on the desktop, it used to work.
>press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+L
>mfw
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also wtf, this is a weird combination
you can send it to someone instead of saying "get a job"
>Press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+T
>mfw
this doesn't do anything on my machine
Its a bunch of shortcuts for Windows product urls L is for Linkedin. This shortcut replacing L with some other letters will open corresponding urls, dont remeber what T is
oh right, I forgot where I am
what the frick is Satya Nadella smoking
I've had bad experiences using tab. On some websites, tabbing brings you to the "show password" button. On my linux distro, I can't use tab in my login manager. Now I have tab-trauma and always use enter.
>press enter
>it doesn't switch fields
>it gives you an error saying you forgot to enter password
Better this than accidently displaying your password at the worst moment.
you just know it
Shift tab sends you backwards through the fields too
My favorite thing is ctrl+L automatically putting your cursor in the address bar in browsers is one I wish i knew years ago
Also F2 to rename and highlight filenames was one of the first useful ones I learned
>ctrl+L
holy shit, this is a crazy fricking gamechanger
also works in file-browser btw
Alt+d too.
Middle mouse click on a link opens it in a new tab. Middle mouse click on a tab closes the tab.
You can drag files with right mouse button to open a context menu when you drop the files, which allows you to specify what action to do with the files instead of relying on the default and inconsistent behavior of left click drag.
win + 1/2/3... opens up the 1st, 2nd, 3rd... program on your taskbar, or brings it to the foreground if it's already open.
F10/F11 are the general full screen keys for programs.
F6 works as an alternative to ctrl + L. You can press tab while renaming a file to save the name and move on to the next file. So you can do F2, type, tab, type, tab... to quickly go through an entire folder.
In the major browsers you can ctrl + pgup/pgdn to cycle through the tabs.
Ctrl+W Closes your current tab
windows:
alt is a good key. for example, alt+y will "press" yes on a windows UAC popup asking for admin permission
alt+space on an app will open a windows menu. see the underlined "n" under minimize? pressing n will minimize the app
win+1 will open the first app pinned on your task bar, win+2 will open the second, etc
win+e will open the file explorer
ctrl+shift+escape will open the task manager
press alt then tab once but keep holding alt to see open apps. press tab while holding alt to select app
win+r: open Run. Run is like dmenu for windows. e.g., enter chrome, notepad, etc. you can create Windows Shortcuts and put them in a directory on your path. typing that shortcut into Run (which opens with win+r) will run that shortcut
general typing:
home to go to beginning of line (if your keyboard doesn't have a dedicated home key dont bother, ur screwed)
end to go to end of line (if your keyboard doesn't have a dedicated home key dont bother, ur cucked)
ctrl+left / ctrl+right to jump by word
shift+arrow keys to highlight with cursor
combine shift+arrow keys + ctrl to hightlight by words
browser:
ctrl+L in browser to jump to url bar.
youtube.com: press shift+? to see all youtube shortcuts. / is pretty useful.
many more
file explorer:
ctrl+L: like browser, used to work in windows explorer but win 11 broke it.
alt+up: go to parent dir
alt+left/right to navigate dir history
there are many more shell related / command line running tips if someone wants some
general typing:
if you dont have home/end try fn+right/left arrow
tab goes to the next input field
shift+tab goes to prev input field
explorer:
ctrl+click to select multiple files
select a file then shift click another file to select everything between the two selected files
ctrl+c on selected files to copy
navigate to another dir and press ctrl+v to copy/paste files
file copy works with ctrl+x/ctrl+v for cut/paste
also, many apps like browser, vscode, intellij have ctrl+tab bound to next tab
explorer:
shift+hold up down/up arrow will select multiple files
press f2 to rename. don't press enter to complete the rename. instead, press tab/shift tab to rename other files
>ctrl+L: like browser, used to work in windows explorer but win 11 broke it.
works for me on Win11
Also try F6, works the same in browser.
start using virtual desktops and learn their keyboard shortcuts
https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmanager/windows-10-virtual-desktop-shortcuts.html
Also, make yourself a list of keyboard shortcuts you want to learn and turn them into an image, and set it as your wallpaper for reference.
>set it as your wallpaper
Interesting study idea, I like this. Thanks, Mister Fister
Everyone on windows 10/11 should know about win + x. I love pressing win + x, u, u when I'm done for the day.
I'm a bit lazy at the end of the day so to sleep the computer I'll win + d to minimize everything and then Alt + f4 and arrow key to navigate to the sleep option
my aunt who had been using a computer her whole life didn't realize you could select multiple files with ctrl+click or shift+click until she was 50 something. I have 30 yr old friends who didn't know this either.
Per default, when moving the mouse, windows not only takes into account the distance travelled by a mouse, but also the speed at which it was moved.
So if you move your mouse quickly, the cursor will go farther than if you moved the device the same physial distance but slower.
Some might find it useful when using a trackpad, but its generally agreed upon to be incredibly moronic and counterproductive when using an actual mouse. The option used to be called Mouse-acceleration, but for some sick and twisted purpose its called "Enhance pointer precision" now. Having it disabled might take a short while to get used to, but you'll soon wonder how you could ever stand having it enabled.
>Enhance pointer precision
What a sick, twisted renaming that is
In basicall all programs that have a menu-bar at the top, you can press or hold alt alt (it depends) to have each entry in the menu have a single letter marked by an underscore.
If you press alt plus that letter, you will activate that menu item.
Sub-menus generally work the same, press the underscored letter to activate the menu item.
This means that you press Alt-F and then Alt+O to do File > Open in dozens upon dozens of different programs.
Ctrl+O is a common key-bind for "open file" too btw.
Some programs generalize that concept to other parts of the UI too, meaning that if you ever see a label with a single letter having an underscore, it means you can activate it by pressing alt plus that letter.
Same for when suddenly underscores appear if you press Alt.
This browser extension generalizes that for webpages:
https://lydell.github.io/LinkHints/
meaning you can activate any element on a webpage with just two or three keyboard gestures, wihtout having to iterate each element by tabbing through.
It visualises it a bit differently, but the endresult is the same.
In Firefox Ctrl+L focuses on address bar
Prepending search in address bar with * (put space after it) searches in your bookmarks
^ limits search to history
% -- to tabs
? or ctrl+k forces to search with your default search engine, ignoring history, bookmarks and tabs
Ctrl+Tab (and Ctrl + Shift + Tab) cycles between last tabs
Crtl+Alt+ left/right switches to the tab to left/right of the current
Shift + F10 basically works as a right click in some apps. I use it in file explorers.
just use the menu-key, dummy
My old Thinkpad had that key but my new one does not.
test?
Windows key + arrow key up to Fullscreen the current window
Windows key + shift + arrow key to move current window to other screen
Use those all the times, works both on windows and most Linux DE
You can press Alt-Tab to switch between applications.
Ctrl Cmd Space
brings up emoji keyboard!
you can press y/n on yes/no popups like when closing an unsaved file in notepad with ctrl+w
in most systems, including Linux and Windows, if you press CTRL + "Windows Key" + Arrow Right (or Arrow Left), you can switch "workspaces", which are groups of windows
This is very useful to setup a workspace for different things.
Like, maybe you have one workspace with Firefox open on your email. Another workspace just for the music you're listening to. Another workspace with VSCode/ Excel / your actual work tool