Questions tagged [keyboard-shortcuts]
Using a keyboard key or combination of keys to quickly perform an action.
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Use second keyboard for shortcuts
On Windows, if you connect two USB keyboards, they behave like one. AFAIK (I can't try at the moment) it even synchronizes CapsLock and NumLock.
I'm looking for a way to map keyboard shortcuts to the ...
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MacOS utility similar to Vim's Leader
One of the things I love about Vim is the leader key and the ability to create macros with it. The leader key concept is that it is a hotkey (I use ) that initiates a command based on the next ...
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Make Stream Deck work with DaVinci Resolve
I have an Elgato Stream Deck XL and I thought it would make my life easier. However, it turns out, it's a lot of work before it makes your life easier.
The most frustrating thing is when the hotkeys ...
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Image-to-directory triaging with hotkeys support
I'm looking for an image triage software, preferably a GUI application that satisfies the following requirements:
the view pane with the current image to triage preview;
the view pane with target ...
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Fast visual Git client for mac with keyboard shortcuts
I'm looking for a Git client with keyboard shortcuts that can make common operations such as committing, merging, rebasing and switching branches quickly with the help of the visual representation.
I'...
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Remapping Mouse Clicks with Keystrokes on macOS
Looking for macOS app that can remap the two thumb buttons on a mouse to simulate a combination of keystrokes. This software should be compatible with macOS Ventura and can be paid for.
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Unhook key shortcuts on websites
There are websites that react on certain key combinations. For example certain websites intercept Ctrl + 1 ... Ctrl + 9 key combinations. I have those shortcuts set up in browser for tab navigation: ...
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Tool to list all current Windows 10 Hotkeys?
I tried "Windows Hotkey Explorer" (WHE) and it exploded in my face in a spectacular fashion. (Do NOT ever run this if you are on Windows 8 or higher. It will just PRESS each and every hotkey....
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SizzlingKeys (Music / iTunes Key Control) replacement for macOS Catalina?
I'm in love with SizzlingKeys. It has been the best tool for iTunes for me for the past decade and I just can't live without it. :'(
It allows me to do everything I want to do with my music with a ...
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Software for docking windows to corners (rather than sides) with configurable window sizes
Sometimes I'm on a 27" screen with a crazy resolution of 2560x1440 that allows me to put windows on each corner and still have, essentially, four 1280x720 windows, which is great, but tedious, since ...
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Linux manage input from numpad
I have an extra numpad and I want to use it as macros. Is there any software for Fedora 29 that can change the input from numpad to do something like pasting text? (like "¯\_(ツ)_/¯" or "=_=")
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On a Windows PC, is there a software that I can automate a left down mouse-click at a specific location using a keyboard shortcut
I have checked out the recommendations of this page. However, I've found that "AutoHotKey" has a pretty steep learning curve and "Auto Mouse Click Generator" does not have the ...
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Software to easily switch between audio output devices
I use headphones and a pair of screen-mounted speakers each for different tasks at various times during the day, and I have them both always plugged in (speakers use HDMI socket, and headphones in ...
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Software to click anywhere on the screen without mouse
I know that I can move the mouse using the keyboard.
But I am searching something that work faster.
Some years ago I had a software that make a table on the screen, that give any place a number, and ...
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How can I quickly view a list of application-specific keyboard shortcuts on all operating systems (Windows, Mac, Linux)?
I'm looking for a standalone program or OS utility that will quickly list an application's keyboard shortcuts to help teach digital fluency.
I haven't quite found any individual programs or utilities ...
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Gratis Windows hotkey program for online gaming
In "a certain online game", I have four different attacks, currently bound to keys X, C, V and B.
Using them in that order increases their effect. I.e X makes enemies more vulnerable to C, and so on (...
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PDF viewers can navigate bookmarks with keyboard
I need to find a PDF viewer, working on Windows, that can navigate the bookmarks by keyboard only. In specific, it should be able to do these with hotkeys only:
Open and close bookmark panel (PDF-...
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Firefox add-on to have tab shortcut like Pale Moon?
I like the way that Pale Moon manages the tabs. When you press Ctrl+Tab, you don't move to your next (in position) tab but your last opened tab. More importantly (I haven't seen any add-on that covers ...
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【switch the value of PrtSc button to Rightmouse buttom】 [closed]
【switch the value of PrtSc button to Rightmouse buttom】
Does this button has a certain name? Is there any software that can help me switch PrtSc button on my laptop to the Rightmouse buttom ...
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Vim/Vimium-like window manager
I have just started using the Vimium plugin for Chrome and I am kicking myself for not using it earlier. It is packed with features that make web browsing much easier, and also uses very similar ...
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MacOS for Beginners - Which Tools to Install?
I've been a programmer for quite some time and therefore I had a lot of contact with Windows (vomit - I have to have it to play games), Linux (yeah), and lately I started with MacOS just to learn more ...
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Tool to sync keyboard shortcuts for programming IDE's
As a developer I use multiple IDE's like Visual Studio, VS Code, Sublime, intelliJ, Android studio, ect. Almost all of them have a way to customize and store shortcut/keymap settings. I use this a ...
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Create and easily display cheat sheets (with shortcuts) for any program on Mac
I'm currently using CheatSheet.app on OS X (10.9 if that matters). This app displays the shortcuts of the application in focus with a shortcut.
Sadly, for some programs, IDEs for instance, only a ...
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Ubuntu. Keys emulation
There are tenkeyless (slim) keyboards with don't have numpad and dont' have emulation of numpad, so I would like to emulate numpad on UIOJKLM<> buttons on holding ALT or WIN key.
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Which 3rd party "keyboard shortcut" software shoud I use for Windows?
I want to install a keyboard shortcut software on a Windows 7 system. Mainly if found the following two free alternatives:
AutoHotkey (Freeware / Open Source)
AutoIt (Freeware / Closed Source)
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Holistic keyboard shortcut approach/scheme/guide?
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Where can I find a resource to help me implement a powerful, holistic, cross-application approach to keyboard shortcuts on MacOS that maximizes productivity and minimizes movement that ...
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Searching for a keyboard optimized webbrowser (ideally on Linux)
So we all know most webbrowsers are highly optimized for mouse usage. Basically every button on the web screams "use your mouse".
I've always used mouse a decent amount until I began using Linux. I ...
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How to map a modifier key + key to a single key? (example: Shift+M2 to E)
I play a game that uses WASD for movement that also uses Q and E for abilities.
With this hotkey setup, I cannot hit E while moving up and to the right (holding down W and D), because both those ...
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Unicode keyboard shortcuts known from Linux on Windows?
On Windows I miss the Linux functionality, that any existing character could be inserted by pressing Ctrl + Shift + u1234, where "1234" is a Unicode code of that character.
Some of the characters ...
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Efficient way to manually categorize / tag short texts
I have several hundred short snippets of text. I need to view them one at a time and mark each one with one or more tags from a pre-populated list. I'd like to have a piece of software that lets me do ...
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Firefox add-on to immediately store bookmark
I very often bookmark pages in Firefox in a 'Read later' folder.
This takes 3 actions:
Hit Ctrl-D
Pull open the Folder dropdown containing the last folders used
Click on the 'Read later' folder
This ...
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Software for simulating mouse click at a specific position with shortcut key?
I'm looking for a software which lets me simulate left mouse click at specific positions by pressing custom shortcut keys.
And I also need to create multiple simulations. For example, I would like to ...
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Terminal that supports PgDn as option
I would like a terminal for Ubuntu that supports PgDn and PgUp as the default functionality and to send them to the current Unix application when you press PgDn+Shift.
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Bind strings to hotkey
I want to quick paste some different strings using hotkeys. For example if I press Alt+L in any input form it works like if I pasted loremipsum. Or it may be some abbreviation, for example I enter li,...
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Program that allows keyboard shortcut for changing monitor brightness?
I have pangobright and Desktop lighter that allow me to control the monitor brightness (of my external monitor not just my laptop screen) by clicking on some things/sliding a bar
I'm looking for a ...
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Software to modify text in a clipboard with hotkey
So I need a piece of software that does the following:
I have say the text string "ABCDEF" in my clipboard
I press a hotkey
I have the text string "ABCDEF+GHI" in my clipboard
Now I can paste the ...
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Windows app to allow positioning windows in specific formations
Can anyone recommend a gratis Windows 7 app that allows the user to reposition windows in specific useful formations?
Specifically:
Positioning two windows side by side horizontally
(the ...
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Setting numlock as a hotkey in Windows (by changing registry values)
Recently I found Microsoft Keyboad Layout Creator which can tweak the registry to add a new keyboard layout for a language. But it does not let the user change the capslock or numlock functionality.
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Typing foreign characters without installing keyboard layouts
Reported by a customer we had some issues with special characters that were outside the ISO-8859-1 code page.
Since I learned Chinese for three years, I could personally reproduce the issue by ...
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Shortcuts to surround text by curly braces, and more
Many times I need to simply surround some text by some signs, like curly braces, square brackets and more depending on what it is exactly I am writing, scripting or programming.
Some programs, like ...
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Software to map custom keys on a keyboard / mouse
I'm searching for a software which can bind commands / actions / etc. to the custom keys on my keyboard / mouse.
I mean the keys: Mode, M1-9 & C1-9
I know there is always special software and ...
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Place the title of the current tab in the clipboard with a keyboard shortcut in Google Chrome
I am looking for a Google Chrome extension that allow the user to place the title of the current tab in the clipboard with a keyboard shortcut. It should work on Microsoft Windows.
There seems to be ...
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Windows software for custom shortcut keys
I would like a software which allow me to create custom shortcut key like:
Shortcut to my Dropbox folder
Shortcut to open my text editor
Shortcut to write my usual password (bad idea I know)
Shortcut ...
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Assign "back" and "forward" buttons to a keyboard shortcut
My current mouse has a "back" and "forward" button on the thumb-side.
I am looking to buy a different mouse that doesn't have those buttons, therefore I would like to have an application that can ...
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Warning when I click a button that could have been pressed through a keyboard shortcut
I am looking for a program that can display a warning whenever I click a button that could have been pressed through a keyboard shortcut.
Ideally, the warning should just be some pop-up that ...
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Looking for popup cheat sheet for windows
I am a web developer - and I also work with the windows command line; bash command line; and several advanced digital audio workstations, as wells as graphic design software. I'm only saying this to ...
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OSX: free software that can assign commands to modifier key + mouse button actions
Is there free software for osx that can assign commands to modifier key+ mouse button actions? For example, I'd like to emulate pressing F1 when I clicked the right button on my mouse while holding ...
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Software that allows me to trigger Python scripts with keyboard shortcuts
I'd like to quickly run Python scripts I frequently use whenever I want. Is there software like Keyboard Maestro for osx that allows me to trigger Python scripts with arbitrary keyboard shortcuts?
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OS X client for Trello that supports keyboard shortcut to create new card
I want to optimize the task of creating a new Trello card for a specific board and list. Lots of tools exist for creating cards from a different piece of media (bookmarklet for web, incoming email, ...
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Is there a JS library that would grant vim key bindings to a textarea?
This is a related question, but I am wondering if there is a pure JS solution that a server could serve so that all client browsers can enjoy the vim keybindings without extra client-side extensions.
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