• grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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      21 days ago

      I’ve made a couple abortive attempts at sway and others, but can’t seem to find anything that “just works” like i3. Is it really worth switching?

      • Samsy@lemmy.ml
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        21 days ago

        Sway to i3 is near the same, difference is Xorg vs. Wayland.

        Hyprland is worth switching but that’s just my opinion.

  • nicerdicer@feddit.org
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    21 days ago

    I’m the Hackerman of my workplace by using shift+tab to jump one cell to the left in Excel.

    tab --> cell to the right ist selected (next cell)

    shift+tab --> cell to the left is selected (previous cell)

  • drcobaltjedi@programming.dev
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    22 days ago

    I worked with this kid born in the year 2000 for about 11 months. He was in very loose terms “IT”, when he was typing ont he keyboard hed always hit the caps lock to type something in upper case, and when I questioned him on why he did that he responded “what do you do? Hold shift?” In a tome that implied I was somehow the weird one. He also had trouble typinh any symbols on the number row and had to be told to hold shift.

    Believe it or not this incompetent IT guy was fired for his incompetence in IT (and shitty people skills)

  • TheOakTree@lemm.ee
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    21 days ago

    Win + shift + S brings up the new version of the snipping tool, win + shift + arrow key moves your window (left and right to change displays, up to fit the window vertically, down to minimize).

    • portuga@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      For the snipping tool, can’t you also use the “prt scr” key to bring it on? I saw my coworker doing that some time ago but never explored the subject

      • TheOakTree@lemm.ee
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        20 days ago

        Glad it works on KDE too :) it’s a great tool for looking like a hackerman in front of coworkers.

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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        20 days ago

        Ctrl T most know for opening a new tab. Ctrl shift T a lot don’t know, opens previous tabs. Aka all those times you closed a tab and then realized you needed it 10 mins later… You can reopen those. (Also if you close edge/chrome and lost your tabs somehow, when launching fresh often Ctrl shift T will relaunch all of them on one press if needed). Work environments usually push Edge and chrome use a lot.

        Also many don’t use Windows V. Instead of Ctrl V which pastes the last item copied, windows V opens the clip board so you can paste one of the last few things you copied. Aka all those times you paste and didn’t realize you copied a link or something after and now lost what you were trying to paste, you can turn it on using win v and it will stay on for future use.

  • Troy@lemmy.ca
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    22 days ago

    Sometimes it’s something simple like CTRL-C, then CTRL-V and the person watching you is like: wait how did you do that?!

      • Troy@lemmy.ca
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        21 days ago

        I’ve been a Linux user for so long. Clipboard history was a thing almost two decades before Windows got it. I don’t think it is coded to Win+V though – CTRL-ALT-V is what my muscle memory is telling me…

        Middle mouse button paste is the bees knees though ;)

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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      21 days ago

      Haha I remember someone at a front desk grumbling about how they couldn’t find the clock, and without looking at their screen I asked them to press F11. The way they looked at me when that solved it was priceless.

    • 50MYT@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      You joke.

      I had a hardcore boomer who worked mainframes - he was a mainframe wizard - refuse a redundancy payment (at age 60 - would have been a year plus wages). He was told if he didn’t take it, he would be moved to a team elsewhere. He shows up in my team and I had to teach him how to do copy paste. Then the shortcuts blew his mind.

      He still used a pen and paper to change passwords (kept a small pile of them on his desk, and none were labeled but that’s another story).

      • SatyrSack@feddit.orgEnglish
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        21 days ago

        You joke.

        I highly doubt that was a joke. It is unsettlingly common among even those who use computers daily.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      Mac integrated it into gestures back when 10.7 came out I believe. Believe it was four finger slide up… Haven’t used it in years so I may be wrong. Don’t own any apple products.

      • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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        20 days ago

        I don’t think so, but I’ll look into it. I say that because when I started using a Mac for work in 2019 I was trying to find this feature and it wasn’t there. But maybe it is? idk. I downloaded Rectangle.

    • SatyrSack@feddit.orgEnglish
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      21 days ago

      There are users from all generations who don’t know shortcuts. There are also users from all generations who do know shortcuts. In my experience, gen X/Y are more likely than other generations to know shortcuts. With that said, I still come across far more gen X who don’t know any than gen Y.

      Though this all may be culture/region dependent.

      • GreenAppleTree@lemmy.world
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        21 days ago

        Gen X, the real Silent Generation. So silent that nobody notices us sneaking past, ensuring a smooth transition from the analog age to digital.

    • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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      22 days ago

      Ikr? We were learning keyboard based commands because mice weren’t a thing at the time. Even filthy casuals picked up some over the decades

    • macrocarpa@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      no it’s the normal erasure of gen x from the timeline

      The timeline goes

      Old dead boomers

      Dying wealthy boomers

      Young poor boomers

      Gen y

      Millennials

      Gen z

      Gen alpha

  • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    21 days ago

    I read every comment and I’m pretty sure I’ve got something most of you don’t know. control and left or right will move by one word at a time in text. if you hold shift with this, you can highlight.

    I find this is incredibly useful after I use Alt d or Control-L. in most browsers including most file browsers, this will take you to your address bar. then you can chop up your URL.

    I did see somebody mention shift insert. I don’t know if they mentioned shift delete which cuts.

    • hansolo@lemm.eeEnglish
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      21 days ago

      Even better:

      Win + Space (Win or Super + Space in Linux also) changes keyboard languages. I’m not seeing that anywhere in here either.

      • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        21 days ago

        I hate tripping that one. I actively remove my “alternate” keyboards so I never trip it. on windows, one of my emacs binds trips it. so frustrating.

    • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
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      20 days ago

      Long IT nerd here, I’ve known about those shortcuts for a long time. Its interesting as I left the IT industry about 12 years ago and work in an unrelated field. Half the time I talk to our tech support guys, I know more than them. My fellow colleaugues think I’m like Merlin the magician.

    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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      20 days ago

      I had to write an essay in an exam setting once and all the keyboard controls like that were disabled. Worst 20 minutes ever

    • Tower@lemm.ee
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      21 days ago

      This is what I do. Without looking it up, I have a whisper of a thought that win + arrow is used to, like, rotate the screen or switch monitors or something…

    • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      22 days ago

      In highschool I blew my HTML teacher’s mind when I showed her this. She had been manually resizing windows for years.

      • SatyrSack@feddit.orgEnglish
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        21 days ago

        To be fair, window snapping in Windows is a rather recent feature. I think it was introduced in Windows 7.

    • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
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      22 days ago

      I don’t feel like that method is inferior, it’s just different. Especially depending on the kind of work you’re doing, keyboard or mouse may feel more efficient.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      That’s a reverse keyboard shortcut.

      Here’s another one: When you have multiple windows open, grab one by the title bar with a click-and-hold and shake it around with your mouse. This will cause all your open windows except the one you grabbed to minimize.

      I don’t know how the fuck anyone is meant to discover that naturally, or what would possess anyone to even try. I think someone at Microsoft just put it in there as a joke, so people can incessantly post this exact same “did you know this thing about Windows???” thing on the internet constantly.

      In other news, double clicking the window menu (in the upper left, aka the “staple box”, which later became the mini-icon in Windows 95 and later) to this very day is a shortcut to close a window that nobody who isn’t old enough to remember what 5.25" floppy disks looked like will know about. This is a holdover from, I believe, Windows 2.0. But it still works in modern Windows to this very day.

      • snapcatcher@discuss.tchncs.de
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        20 days ago

        I have to disable the shake gesture on machines that I regularly use because I often trigger it by accident. I don’t even know how, but it happens often enough to be annoying.

  • hark@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    I very rarely use that feature so I forget the windows+arrow shortcut. My favorite shortcuts are shift+arrow when inputting text to highlight text, ctrl+arrow to skip text by word (left and right, but ctrl with up and down mimic home and end keys) and the combination ctrl+shift+arrow to highlight one word at a time. I also like ctrl+shift+esc to pop open task manager directly instead of using ctrl+alt+delete and then selecting task manager.

    Oh yeah, and taking a screenshot with windows+shift+s. I think Windows 11 added windows+shift+r to record video.

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 days ago

    What’s a windows key? Proper keyboards have modifier keys named shift, ctrl, meta, super and hyper.