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I am posting this because I am ashamed I just found out it existed, and I thought I would subject the rest of my Beehaw friends to the same experience! π
The instructions are super simple, Windows Key + . (period) opens up a little overlay which contains Emojis, GIFs, Clipboard, and some other stuff I'm not sure is useful.
Ill end this post with a question for you all:
-What was something you learned about technology FAR later than you SHOULD have?
You just taught me how to do the same thing, except I'm using EndeavourOS! Thank you! π
As for me, I learned how to deal with audio issues using alsamixer!
In case you didn't notice, you can immediately start typing as soon as you press that keyboard shortcut (Windows and .) to search through the Emoji.
Thank you I didn't notice that yet! Immediately reminds me of how the start menu works with the built in search bar.
I shoulda known I was going to get a bunch of good tips back from posting this! π
Win key+shift+s brings up a more advanced screenshot menu. It defaults to cropped screenshot, where you can select which part of the screen to save.
In an upcoming Windows build the printscreen key will also invoke the screenshot tool by default, though you can revert it back to the old function if you prefer. Handy!
Yes, I've been using this for a while on my work computer with win11, neat little feature.
You can change the default behavior of the Print Screen key to open the Snipping Tool (what you're talking about). It's in Windows settings.
Um... thanks, I've going to Emojipedia and copy and pasting from there. π€¦ββοΈ
Hey no one ever said having an alternate way to do something is a bad thing! Redundancy is good! Thank you for the tip!
Sure thing. I kinda feel like I just told everyone I get out of a car through the window and I never knew you could open the door. Lol. Thank you for you positivity.
Win + Shift + Left / Right Arrow will shift a window from one monitor to the other. Should have known that keyboard shortcut a lot longer than I have.
I actually learned this one working at an IT help desk. It's the main way to fix the "I can't find this window" problem when people throw an application screen entirely off monitor or it's just poking out by 1 pixel and they can't find it.
Hit that shortcut and it snaps to one of the screens and you can go from there!
Yeah it's quickly become one of my most frequently used keyboard shortcuts, and I've used it for exactly that purpose as well.
Works in KDE on Linux aswell.
On Android (maybe iOS)? You can hold down on the space key and drag left and right to move the text cursor. Very useful.
Yep, it's a quite old feature, but don't get too excited, it's a pain in the neck to use. It's like they put it there without even using it. Very unfriendly experience.
How is it hard to use? Itβs just a list of emojis by type with a search box like any phone.
If I type :hand then [Win+;] I expect the hand emoji section to be shown, or at least the search box to be auto-filled.
I don't want to touch the mouse to select an emoji, I just type, select (with keyboard) and go on with my writing.
Changing focus to type a search term in a small pupup is non productive.
I rechecked just now, the search field is gone in Win11, even more useless now... M$ is not even trying, too focused on adding spyware lol
I think it's probably the shortcut to open it, I've already forgotten it and I just read it a few seconds ago. Something you'd need to use a few times to get used to
I agree, I think it's only going to work for me with memorizing it because one of the MMORPGs I used to play used the period key for chat options, so I'm piggybacking on that.
The shortcut choice sort of screams "there weren't many shortcuts left"
I didn't know about this. Just looked it up on Mac (MacOS). It's the Globe Key + E. If you don't have a Globe Key, it's FN Key + E.
You can paste screenshots straight into a Lemmy post and it is automatically uploaded and linked for you. I use this to paste whatever I've just captured with Win+shift+s
Oh nice so you are saying essentially you can submit screenshots directly from the clipboard?
Yep, exactly that. Take screenshot (Win+shift+s) then paste (ctrl-v) into the post box
It's also accessible with <WinKey> + ;. Not quite sure why Windows has multiple shortcuts for the same menu, but there we are.
Lol it's right next to the original shortcut too, maybe in case we fat finger it!
Not something I should have known, but if you want to continue using phone features on Windows Windows+H opens up the speech2text feature.
Nice! I don't use speech to text often but it is one of those things you will miss when you do need it. Thank you!
That works surprisingly well. Although maybe turn the TV down ...
Thank you!
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IIRC this feature used to only be available in English locale and needed a registry hack to enable it on other locales. That might not be the case anymore
Works on German locale here out of the box now. (Win 10)
But I also learned about this feature pretty recently.
Super strange that something like this would be language specific, considering it's all Unicode characters behind the scenes, the emojis anyway yeah?
Sounds like maybe when they released the feature initially? Although I'm more thinking of the normal style of rollout where they trial a region first.
thanks to emoji keyboard, I found the clipboard history in windows and made the searching of history easier
Win+V is one of the most powerful functionalities in any operating system IMHO. I use it every day.
I actually hadn't clicked the clipboard tab yet to see the extent of that tool, so thank you for pointing that out. That might actually be the most useful part of this tool so far
π² Amazing! I've just remapped my End key to Windows+. since I have never ever used the End key. :) (Windows PowerToys has a Keyboard Manager function to remap keys.)
Who put the Denko emojis in there?
Ha! I gotta admit I had no idea what Denko Emojis were until I did a quick search. It does seem exceptionally odd that there is a whole section dedicated to these, right? lol
I had a coworker who used to send a wide range of these all the time though, I wonder if this was his trick all along.
Works in KDE Plasma too!