all except for insert (unless i'm using some terminal that doesn't support ctrl+shift+v), scroll lock and pause
print is obvious, pg down/up, home/end are for navigation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_Lock >In the original design, Scroll Lock was intended to modify the behavior of the arrow keys. When the Scroll Lock mode was on, the arrow keys would scroll the contents of a text window instead of moving the cursor
pgup/down frequently
home/end commonly
insert is quite situational but I do use it from time to time
delete whenever I want to delete files in a graphical file manager
pause is for pausing games, so I've used it, but very rarely nowadays
scroll lock I can't recall using
printscr I used to use for taking screenshots back when I was a wingay but now I don't use it. alt-printscr is sysrq though, and I have used that.
the only key on the keyboard I would say is truly pointless and that I can't recall ever using is caps lock.
Home, end, page up/down, and delete. I usually use a different shortcut for print. Delete is kind of more convenient than backspace when you're navigating text with ctrl, shift, and the arrow keys.
>Which out of pic rel do you use and why
Never for their actual functionality. Instead, I've tied screenshotting to ctrl+print. The scroll lock I use to switch between a custom keyboard layout and QWERTY. Otherwise I don't use them ever.
>Insert would be useful in a certain program >doesn't work >google it >nobody bothered asking about it, or the only discussions are about how to disable it, which doesn't work backwards
I use Pause and Scroll Lock whenever I want to set a shortcut to be sure it doesn't overlap with any other button. For example I use Pause for the Steam Overlay. The others I use for their obvious intended purpose.
All but scroll lock and pause for text editing, terminal and some TUIs. I did use pause for a while back when I used emacs and had it bound to a function I can't remember.
printscreen is useful for those "DO NOT REDEEM SCREENSHOT!!1!" webpages that try to keep secrets in a browser kek
on my devices, pressing scroll lock 6 times in a particular rhythm dumps all my crypto keys from RAM, encrypts everything, resets all the disk controllers, wipes RAM for good measure and shuts down the computer, in that order
pause is never bound to anything ever
The only one I don't use is Scroll Lock
Ctrl + Pause/Break for terminating programs running in consoles
Ctrl or Shift + Insert for copy/paste in terminals
Everything else is self explanatory.
I bind Pause to commands all the time, and sometimes Scroll Lock as well (even though the latter technically has a defined purpose).
I do use the rest regularly, although not often.
Yes, I also own a cheapo 60% chink board, but I concluded that having those keys on layers is not as convenient. I greatly prefer having dedicated keys.
Top row doesn't have a well-defined purpose.
The rest are essential for efficiently doing any kind of text editing and navigating, especially programming. If you don't use these keys you're handicapped.
Insert is that key you hit by accident when you meant to hit Delete and then you start typing over text you didn't mean to
all except for insert (unless i'm using some terminal that doesn't support ctrl+shift+v), scroll lock and pause
print is obvious, pg down/up, home/end are for navigation
I use home and end a lot
All of them except scroll. Pause very rarely. The rest all the time
Pause for pausing Starcraft II
I still don't know what scroll lock does
In excel scroll lock means you can scroll down whole pages when you hit the down arrow instead of going one cell at s time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_Lock
>In the original design, Scroll Lock was intended to modify the behavior of the arrow keys. When the Scroll Lock mode was on, the arrow keys would scroll the contents of a text window instead of moving the cursor
cool, it's like mouse wheel
pgup/down frequently
home/end commonly
insert is quite situational but I do use it from time to time
delete whenever I want to delete files in a graphical file manager
pause is for pausing games, so I've used it, but very rarely nowadays
scroll lock I can't recall using
printscr I used to use for taking screenshots back when I was a wingay but now I don't use it. alt-printscr is sysrq though, and I have used that.
the only key on the keyboard I would say is truly pointless and that I can't recall ever using is caps lock.
Home, end, page up/down, and delete. I usually use a different shortcut for print. Delete is kind of more convenient than backspace when you're navigating text with ctrl, shift, and the arrow keys.
>Which out of pic rel do you use and why
Never for their actual functionality. Instead, I've tied screenshotting to ctrl+print. The scroll lock I use to switch between a custom keyboard layout and QWERTY. Otherwise I don't use them ever.
all of them except scroll lock and pause
>Insert would be useful in a certain program
>doesn't work
>google it
>nobody bothered asking about it, or the only discussions are about how to disable it, which doesn't work backwards
I use Pause and Scroll Lock whenever I want to set a shortcut to be sure it doesn't overlap with any other button. For example I use Pause for the Steam Overlay. The others I use for their obvious intended purpose.
Only Delete, really, but I use it all the time. I recently got a 65% keeb and I miss Delete so much.
I use insert to toggle between insert and replace mode in vim.
Home to got to the top of a web page and alt home to go to my home page.
All but scroll lock and pause for text editing, terminal and some TUIs. I did use pause for a while back when I used emacs and had it bound to a function I can't remember.
DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHAT THE CAPS LOCK KEY DOES?
printscreen is useful for those "DO NOT REDEEM SCREENSHOT!!1!" webpages that try to keep secrets in a browser kek
on my devices, pressing scroll lock 6 times in a particular rhythm dumps all my crypto keys from RAM, encrypts everything, resets all the disk controllers, wipes RAM for good measure and shuts down the computer, in that order
pause is never bound to anything ever
>Which out of pic rel do you use and why
All of them.
>Delete
If you never used it you did not use a computer.
>Print
most games map print screen to this
>HOME
>END
>Page UP
>Page DOWN
Navigation.
>Pause
I rebind this to making a screen shot since some software can take over the print
>Scroll look
Rebound to start/stop recording screen I even get a free indicator light.
>Insert
Obscure however has its uses.
I use Home, End, Print, and Pg Up/Down.
Nobody ever uses insert intentionally and wasting a key on scroll lock and pause/break is dumb as frick.
Apple had the right idea of additional F keys
home, end, pg up and down
use them for browsing imageboards and reading
Home, End and Delete
Print/Delete/Home/End/Pg. up/Pg. down very commonly
Insert/Scroll-lock very rarely
Pause never
The only one I don't use is Scroll Lock
Ctrl + Pause/Break for terminating programs running in consoles
Ctrl or Shift + Insert for copy/paste in terminals
Everything else is self explanatory.
delete for when i wanna forward backspace.
I bind Pause to commands all the time, and sometimes Scroll Lock as well (even though the latter technically has a defined purpose).
I do use the rest regularly, although not often.
Yes, I also own a cheapo 60% chink board, but I concluded that having those keys on layers is not as convenient. I greatly prefer having dedicated keys.
Home, end, and delete. They're the only really useful ones
PageUp/PageDown, ALL the time
Home/End when programming
Insert/Delete only occasionally. Delete gets used a lot in programming
I never used Insert and scroll lock and I very rarely use Pause/break to stop compilitaion in VS.
>printscreen
more like sysrq on linux lmao
Top row doesn't have a well-defined purpose.
The rest are essential for efficiently doing any kind of text editing and navigating, especially programming. If you don't use these keys you're handicapped.
I use home end page up and page down to scroll through threads all the time
My keyboard doesn't have any of those
you have one of those 41% keebs right?
Technically yes, but I mostly just use my laptop's keyboard, which also doesn't have any of those keys
i use the navigation keys daily. everything else on there is ghey and bloat
scroll lock and pause are free rebinds, like muting/deafening dicsord
[x] Print Screen
[ ] Scroll lock
[x] Pause (win+pause opens system)
[ ] Insert
[x] Delete
[x] Home
[x] End
[x] Page Up
[x] Page Down
All except pause, insert, scrlock. In fact I do not know what pause and lock does.