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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How to bring back ć letter shortcut (alt + c) for Polish keyboards on Windows with Copilot?
How to bring back ć letter shortcut (alt + c) for Polish keyboards on Windows with Copilot which has been replaced by a Copilot shortcut?
I am not able to type in ć letter easily after one of recent ...
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Navigate using hjkl keys in MS Edge PDF viewer à la Vim
I am using Microsoft Edge (Version 145.0.3800.70 (Official build) (64-bit)) as my PDF viewer. I am also using this Vimium C extension which allows me to navigate sites using keyboard: https://...
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How to disable Ctrl + Q shortcut used to exit Foxit Reader on Windows?
I am using Foxit Reader on Windows and would like to disable the Ctrl + q shortcut, which immediately closes the application.
Foxit Reader version: 10.1.4.37651
To check the keyboard shortcut settings,...
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Can I remap the Office key combos using registry?
I have found that the "Office" (aka Hyper) key itself, which is essentially Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win, can be remapped by adding a value to the registry.
And there are combos like Office+X for ...
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How can I remap a single letter key, to trigger 2 letter keys on a Windows PC?
I want to map pressing E trigger 2 other standard keys simultaneously (e.g. G & T).
Everything I can find so far, can either do 1-to-1 remaps of any key, or can do remapping of chords ... but only ...
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Why does neither Alt-Tab nor Win-Tab works in Windows 11?
Windows 11, recently updated from 23H2 to 24H2, with latest Windows updates. Alt-Tab worked fine right after the update, but broke a few days ago.
This is on a laptop, and I have an external keyboard ...
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Add a Keyboard Shortcut to Command that is not in the List
it seems that Microsoft Word has recently changed some of the default keyboard commands. One that I used regularly no longer works, and I would like to get it back. It is to close up the space above a ...
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Free alt tab shortcut (and others) for user applications
I have good 300 keyboard shortcuts defined in my main work app. On Linux, I remapped all system/desktop shortcuts so that they all use super/win key. In this way, I made it possible for my app to use ...
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Pressing Ctrl + . lets some of the terminal emulators I use just insert a dot
Some of the terminal emulators insert a only . when I press Control + . .
I tested this in KDE Konsole, and urxvt.
Only in xterm this key combination is correctly interpreted, i.e. not only '.' is ...
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Why does Ctrl + Shift not let the keys I, J and U register shortly after system startup?
This issue has been happening to be for a while, and quite frankly I've been nothing but confused about it. I am on Windows 10.
I've tried:
Restarting my PC.
Disabling Sticky keys, toggle keys and ...
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"Alt" shortcuts on Win11 Notepad interfering with AHK scripts
I have a shortcut on AutoHotKey that lets me copy links and automatically puts them into a browser with the keybind "Ctrl+Alt+C/D/E/F/G".
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;Take the ...
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How to darken the active screen using a shortcut-key in Windows 7? [duplicate]
Is there a key combination or keyboard shortcut that causes the screen to go dark while the PC computer is working?
Example: I am listening to songs with Windows Media Player or I am listening to a ...
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How to kill to the end of line in browser's URL bar?
Here we are in Google Chrome (on a Chromebook) and say our URL bar currently contains a monstrously long URL.
How do we kill to the end of line, so all that is left is https://osmcha.org/ ?
Sure, ALT+...
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How to intercept/modify keystrokes before the Microsoft Chinese IME processes them on Windows?
I’m using Microsoft IME (Chinese Simplified) and I need to type a backslash (\) while Chinese mode is active.
However, when I press the backslash key, the IME always converts it into the Chinese ...
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How to comment some code in PyCharm using Swiss/German keyboard?
I am trying to learn Python using PyCharm and my Swiss/German keyboard. The usual shortcut to comment some code (line or block) is ⌘ + / which should become ⇧ + ⌘ + 7 on a Swiss/German keyboard since ...
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