Cool shortcut keys

Problem with keyboard shortcuts is that they vary widely from one operating system to another. Granted, the clipboard commands are fairly standard these days. But others such as special character shortcuts are different on every OS.

These are some of KB shortcuts that I find most useful. YMMV...

Commands

• Space or PgDn = goes down a page (in most browsers)
• Shift+space or PgUp = goes up a page (in most browsers)
• Down-arrow = moves down a line or so (in most browsers)
• Up-arrow = moves up a line or so (in most browsers)
• Ctrl+n = new tab or new document (depending on application)
• Ctrl+o = open existing document (depending on application)
• Alt+space = launches command runner
• Ctrl+Alt+F2 through to Ctrl+Alt+F7 = opens alternative TTY command-line-only terminal screens
• Ctrl+Alt+l = locks desktop
• Ctrl+Alt+t= opens a terminal window
• PrtScn = opens print screen utility and/or captures a bitmap of current screen

Clipboard commands

• Ctrl+c = copy
• Ctrl+v = paste
• Ctrl+x = cut
• Ctrl+z = undo last action
• Ctrl+Shift+z = redo last action

Tip: on many (but not all) operating systems, the keyboard shortcuts for commands are often displayed on the various applications' drop down menus.

Special characters

• AltGr+a = æ (as in 'formulæ')
• AltGr+m = µ (greek letter mu, SI symbol for 'micro', as in µA, µF, µg, µm, µV et al)
• AltGr+c = ¢ (as in 'my 2¢')
• AltGr+o = ø (sometimes used to indicate diameter)
• Shift+AltGr+o = Ø (sometimes used to indicate diameter, as in '58mm Ø')
• Shift+AltGr+c = © (as in '©2024')
• Shift+AltGr+r = ® (registered trademark)
• Shift+AltGr+q = Ω (Greek letter omega, used to denote SI unit for electrical resistance, ohm, as in '47Ω resistor')
• Shift+AltGr+w = § (symbol for "section" sometimes used in legal and technical documents)

Useful special chars derived from top-row number keys

• AltGr+1 = ¹ (superscript 1)
• AltGr+2 = ² (as in 'e=mc²')
• AltGr+3 = ³ (as in 'a*a*a=a³')
• Shift+AltGr+3 = £ (Forces pound symbol if you're using a US keyboard)
• AltGr+4 = € (Euro symbol)
• Shift+AltGr+8 = ™ (trade mark symbol)
• Shift+AltGr+1 = ¡ (as in '¡DANGER!')
• Shift+AltGr+2 = ⅛
• Shift+AltGr+4 = ¼
• Shift+AltGr+5 = ⅜
• AltGr+5 = ½
• Shift+AltGr+6 = ⅝
• AltGr+6 = ¾
• Shift+AltGr+7 = ⅞
• Shift+AltGr+9 = ± (as in '230 volts ± 10%')
• Shift+AltGr+0 = ° (as in '21°C')

For any other special chars, I tend to look up in KCharSelect or similar, depending on what OS I'm using at the time.

Edited by waist.it

ANDY00 said

All this time on this site, and I just found out that rather than scrolling down with the mouse wheel or grabbing the bar on the side every time I refresh the page, I can actually press the space bar to skip down a screen at a time. I had no idea! Any other shortcut keys people know about that I’ve missed?

That's a pretty general browser shortcut I think.

If you are using Chrome (or some Chrome-derived browsers) this page will help you:

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/157179

Mac Safari keyboard shortcuts:

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/cpsh003/mac

Edge (Windows browser) shortcuts:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-edge/keyboard-shortcuts-in-microsoft-edge-50d3edab-30d9-c7e4-21ce-37fe2713cfad

That's 10 minutes of my life I'm never going to get back. Slow day and it's raining for a change !

tandi said

That's 10 minutes of my life I'm never going to get back. Slow day and it's raining for a change !

You never know, use enough shortcut keys you may just save 10 minutes - 10 minutes returned :-P

Useful keys here on PP when viewing an image are

• F - Full screen
• Right arrow - Next image
• Left arrow - Previous image
• L - Love/Like an image
• Esc - Exit full screen mode

Danny. said

Useful keys here on PP when viewing an image are

• F - Full screen
• Right arrow - Next image
• Left arrow - Previous image
• L - Love/Like an image
• Esc - Exit full screen mode

Ctrl. F, Ctrl. P - puts your image at the top of the FPI queue.

;)

Edited by Huw

Huw said

Danny. said

Useful keys here on PP when viewing an image are

• F - Full screen
• Right arrow - Next image
• Left arrow - Previous image
• L - Love/Like an image
• Esc - Exit full screen mode

Ctrl. F, Ctrl. P - puts your image at the top of the FPI queue.

;)

Edited by Huw

lol