What computer life hacks are your most used?
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Mine is using the arrow keys to navigate typed text while writing and editing. It helps speed things up, versus having to move your hand to the mouse to navigate.
Use the Up and Down Arrows to move/jump vertically.
Left and Right Arrows to move/jump horizontally.
Combine Left or Right Arrow with Shift to be able to select text. Use Up or Down Arrow with Shift to quickly select whole/nearly whole sections of text.
Combine Control with Left/Right Arrow to jump whole words to more quickly move to where you want to type.
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Shift + Tab (also works on Linux)
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If you have a mouse with side buttons, you can use the side buttons to go back or go to the next page on browsers
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Pressing Alt + F4 on the desktop opens up a dialog asking if you want to shut down, restart, log out, etc. (I think this works on Linux as well)
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Keyboard shortcuts in general.
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Alt + left right (previous/next page in browsers)
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Windows + 1 (2, 3, ...) on Windows and KDE focuses the window at that position in the taskbar
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Alt + Tab to switch windows (hold shift to go backwards)
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Windows + Tab to switch windows within the same application (like, all browser windows if you're in a browser)
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Alt + 1 (2, 3, ...) on Windows/Linux usually selects the corresponding tab
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Ctrl + Tab to cycle through tabs like Alt-Tab does for windows (hold shift to go backwards)
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In most browsers or things with a URL/go to bar, Ctrl+L will focus that. No need to click the address bar, Ctrl+L, example.com, Enter.
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In Discord and Slack, you can press Ctrl+K to open a box to quickly type a channel/DM name to go to it quickly
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If you have them, the Home/End/PageUp/PageDown keys are actually pretty useful. Press Home instead of scrolling all the way back up.
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F1 is usually help
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F2 is usually rename
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F3 is usually search
I'll add some mouse ones: if you have thumb buttons they are next/previous page.
Mouse wheel down clicking on a link opens it in a new tab.
Mouse wheel down clicking on a tab label closes the tab (no need to hunt for the little x).
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Mine is using the arrow keys to navigate typed text while writing and editing. It helps speed things up, versus having to move your hand to the mouse to navigate.
Use the Up and Down Arrows to move/jump vertically.
Left and Right Arrows to move/jump horizontally.
Combine Left or Right Arrow with Shift to be able to select text. Use Up or Down Arrow with Shift to quickly select whole/nearly whole sections of text.
Combine Control with Left/Right Arrow to jump whole words to more quickly move to where you want to type.
Dunno if Emacs Lisp counts as a life hack, but I've been slowly learning it, and it's very nice to be able to setup custom workflows with such a high degree of customization (and a substantial amount of flycheck yelling at me)
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Mine is using the arrow keys to navigate typed text while writing and editing. It helps speed things up, versus having to move your hand to the mouse to navigate.
Use the Up and Down Arrows to move/jump vertically.
Left and Right Arrows to move/jump horizontally.
Combine Left or Right Arrow with Shift to be able to select text. Use Up or Down Arrow with Shift to quickly select whole/nearly whole sections of text.
Combine Control with Left/Right Arrow to jump whole words to more quickly move to where you want to type.
Not most used, but I recently discovered a lot of new options in COSMIC's launcher, and I use them all the time.
Just type
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I've found the windows one sorely lacking. As I recall all windows of a specific program have to be on a single desktop. This causes issues if you are working on multiple word docs, browser windows, or even just want access to email in both desktops. AFAIK there isn't a work around to this. Am I out of the loop on a nice windows feature?
You can specify a window to show on all desktops (or all windows from the same app). Just right-click the window from the Task View screen (Win + tab)
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Mine is using the arrow keys to navigate typed text while writing and editing. It helps speed things up, versus having to move your hand to the mouse to navigate.
Use the Up and Down Arrows to move/jump vertically.
Left and Right Arrows to move/jump horizontally.
Combine Left or Right Arrow with Shift to be able to select text. Use Up or Down Arrow with Shift to quickly select whole/nearly whole sections of text.
Combine Control with Left/Right Arrow to jump whole words to more quickly move to where you want to type.
Oh kid, I do this for over forty years now.
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Oh kid, I do this for over forty years now.
I'm sitting up on the upper balcony tabbing between two two plebs.
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It is, we used the same just with the accessibility button in earlier Windows Versions to troll one another in school.
Thing is, if encryption is enabled it won't work.Not having the disk encrypted is the same as writing the password on the frame of the screen.
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Mine is using the arrow keys to navigate typed text while writing and editing. It helps speed things up, versus having to move your hand to the mouse to navigate.
Use the Up and Down Arrows to move/jump vertically.
Left and Right Arrows to move/jump horizontally.
Combine Left or Right Arrow with Shift to be able to select text. Use Up or Down Arrow with Shift to quickly select whole/nearly whole sections of text.
Combine Control with Left/Right Arrow to jump whole words to more quickly move to where you want to type.
Ctrl + shift + esc brings up the Windows task manager directly instead of the menu you get when you press ctrl + alt + del
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Mine is using the arrow keys to navigate typed text while writing and editing. It helps speed things up, versus having to move your hand to the mouse to navigate.
Use the Up and Down Arrows to move/jump vertically.
Left and Right Arrows to move/jump horizontally.
Combine Left or Right Arrow with Shift to be able to select text. Use Up or Down Arrow with Shift to quickly select whole/nearly whole sections of text.
Combine Control with Left/Right Arrow to jump whole words to more quickly move to where you want to type.
Linux Mint stand-in for Ctrl+Alt+Del on Windows, for when you can't open system monitor:
Get an interactive top you like >
When PC freezes go to tty, open top, works like a task manager -
Mine is using the arrow keys to navigate typed text while writing and editing. It helps speed things up, versus having to move your hand to the mouse to navigate.
Use the Up and Down Arrows to move/jump vertically.
Left and Right Arrows to move/jump horizontally.
Combine Left or Right Arrow with Shift to be able to select text. Use Up or Down Arrow with Shift to quickly select whole/nearly whole sections of text.
Combine Control with Left/Right Arrow to jump whole words to more quickly move to where you want to type.
Linux is the easier to install, less headache to run, less configuration needed, better to game on platform compared to windows.
That's my life hack. Get over the Stockholm syndrome.
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Ctrl + shift + esc brings up the Windows task manager directly instead of the menu you get when you press ctrl + alt + del
wrote last edited by [email protected]Just remember that ctrl+alt+del is a system level interrupt that should always work as long as the kernel is running. Ctrl+shift+esc is not, and won't work in some situations like being used inside a fullscreen frozen program.
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Linux is the easier to install, less headache to run, less configuration needed, better to game on platform compared to windows.
That's my life hack. Get over the Stockholm syndrome.
What distribution do you use?
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Linux is the easier to install, less headache to run, less configuration needed, better to game on platform compared to windows.
That's my life hack. Get over the Stockholm syndrome.
What distribution do you use?
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Mine is using the arrow keys to navigate typed text while writing and editing. It helps speed things up, versus having to move your hand to the mouse to navigate.
Use the Up and Down Arrows to move/jump vertically.
Left and Right Arrows to move/jump horizontally.
Combine Left or Right Arrow with Shift to be able to select text. Use Up or Down Arrow with Shift to quickly select whole/nearly whole sections of text.
Combine Control with Left/Right Arrow to jump whole words to more quickly move to where you want to type.
when my computer pisses me off i like to smash it
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My favorite windows shortcut is 'Windows+shift+left/right' to move an application between monitors. Very helpful for moving games around or snapping without have to use a mouse.
I think this works in KDE out of the box.
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Mine is using the arrow keys to navigate typed text while writing and editing. It helps speed things up, versus having to move your hand to the mouse to navigate.
Use the Up and Down Arrows to move/jump vertically.
Left and Right Arrows to move/jump horizontally.
Combine Left or Right Arrow with Shift to be able to select text. Use Up or Down Arrow with Shift to quickly select whole/nearly whole sections of text.
Combine Control with Left/Right Arrow to jump whole words to more quickly move to where you want to type.
Not too sure if you can do this in windows, but I've enjoyed mapping alt+tab and alt+shift+tab to windows+mouse scroll
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And for those who can't be bothered, opening vim is like the digital version of a finger trap.
Is there a non-digital version of a finger trap?
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What distribution do you use?
Recommend CachyOS, not US centered and pretty stable.
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Mine is using the arrow keys to navigate typed text while writing and editing. It helps speed things up, versus having to move your hand to the mouse to navigate.
Use the Up and Down Arrows to move/jump vertically.
Left and Right Arrows to move/jump horizontally.
Combine Left or Right Arrow with Shift to be able to select text. Use Up or Down Arrow with Shift to quickly select whole/nearly whole sections of text.
Combine Control with Left/Right Arrow to jump whole words to more quickly move to where you want to type.
Control Backspace deletes whole words. Misspelled control? Faster to delete and retype than move my cursor around when I'm on a roll.
