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[XenoRaven]

No one told him to ALT+F4 yet? =(

 

[noah111]

Ugh, I tend to do this every now and then, it sucks. Even though it's kinda rare, it can be dedtrimental. So I downoaded this program;

ClipMenu for Mac, not sure if it's on Windows but i'm sure there's something out there.

It basically keeps a history of your clipboard which is accessible again at any time. It uses a bit of memory if you make it remember 20+ stuff, but I kept it at 10.

 

[Visualante]

What I love in the middle-click-paste is that you can have two different things on the clipboard at the same time, one for ctrl+v and one for the middle button. I use it all the time, paste text with mouse and use ctrl+v for the image etc.

That would be beautiful if the poorly ported Maya actually supported ctrl_v on Linux. Hopefully with the new 2010 rewrite of the UI it will finally support it. But thanks for the tip, very cool for browsing at least.

 

[Xater]

This thread should be renamed to: Kurtofan learns about hotkeys

 

[Keyser Soze]

If you just hit forward before doing anything else doesn't it just go back forward to the reply page with your text in tact?

It does for me, just tried it with this post.

Yeah, GAF keeps the text, but some sites dont... it's really annoying going back when you dont want to though, so I just cancelled the shortcut altogether.

 

[clav]

For those with Windows 7:

http://www.guidingtech.com/4535/windows-7-keyboard-shortcut/

Keyboard shortcuts in case you already didn't know.

Also for Chrome users: Shift ESC brings up Chrome's task manager.

 

[Kurtofan]

This thread should be renamed to: Kurtofan learns about hotkeys

There's so many of them :/

 

[Zaraki_Kenpachi]

CTRL+Z is undo.

CTRL+Tab is pretty neat if you use Win7.

How so?

 

[C.Dark.DN]

There's so many of them :/

I suppose you suck at certain computer games? I mean, man, certain world of warcraft chracters could have like 30 you need to memorize.

 

[clav]

For web browsing, if you hold the alt and press left or right arrow key, you can go forwards/backwards.

Alt D (or Apple L for mac users and sometimes alt L for linux users) takes you directly to the address bar.

You can also switch to tabs according to the number of your keyboard (i.e. Ctrl 1 goes to tab 1, Ctrl 5 goes to tab 5).

Ctrl Tab in web browsing or IM chatting makes it simple to switch tabs in a row.

 

[Zaraki_Kenpachi]

For web browsing, if you hold the alt and press left or right arrow key, you can go forwards/backwards.

Alt D (or Apple L for mac users and sometimes alt L for linux users) takes you directly to the address bar.

CTRL+L does the same thing for pretty much every browser but IE. :/ Easier to remember CTRL+L if you have to use a mac a lot.

F6 is yet another way to highlight the address bar. There's almost too many ways to highlight the address bar...

 

[clav]

CTRL+L does the same thing for pretty much every browser but IE. :/ Easier to remember CTRL+L if you have to use a mac a lot.

alt d is so much easier to press with one hand.

 

[apocalidiot]

The Anti-shortcut



This cancels the backspace 'go back one page' keyboard short-cut. Which can be quite annoying here on GAF if you accidentally click outside the text are when writing a reply and hit backspace.

Thhaaaannnkkk yooouu! Facebook chat sucks because of this

 

[Kurtofan]

I suppose you suck at certain computer games? I mean, man, certain world of warcraft chracters could have like 30 you need to memorize.

I mostly play point and clicks on PC :lol
Actually I knew the f shorcuts for quicksave and quick load etc...

 

[Zaraki_Kenpachi]

alt d is so much easier to press with one hand.

F6 is even easier! But I switched to Ctrl+L just so it's easier to remember shortcuts across multiple OSes. To each his own.

 

[clav]

F6 is even easier! But I switched to Ctrl+L just so it's easier to remember shortcuts across multiple OSes. To each his own.

With Alt D, you can just start typing away as it's easy to go to home position. I have to reach all the way to F6.

I use an ergonomic keyboard. Playing games is a bit difficult although I've gotten used to it. Doing daily tasks on it and programming is just so easy on the hands.

Haha! That's what makes us different.

 

[Arjen]

Followed by CTRL+W.

I didn't knew what that one did.
tried it
damn you.

 

[TabletopTictacs]

More like typing out a long message on PSN and accidentally holding down shift while backspacing, deleting your entire message. Gotta love that.

This is the worst. Whose decision was it to be shift+delete instead of ctrl+delete? :|

 

[VGChampion]

I never have this problem but then again, I go with the good old Command instead of Control.

 

[D4Danger]

How so?

Aero peek

 

[Why would you do that?]

Most key combinations I don't use unless one of my programs has become unresponsive. In that case, I try to Alt+F4 it, of that doesn't work, I'll try to shift+tab away and ctrl+alt+delete me a task manager to force quit the application.

Shift+Delete is really useful for deleting files, though.

There's so many of them :/

To be fair, most hotkeys aren't that widely used. I mean, many people use or know about ctrl+x, c, and v for cut, copy, and paste, I don't think most use ctrl+f to search text or ctrl+g to repeat a search. I'm an oddball, so I check for banned people in every thread I enter with ctrl+g, so I use them a lot.

Also, key combinations can be useful when a right-click menu is unavailable.

 

[Big-E]

did you know you can center click a link and it'll open a new tab? [granted your mouse is setup correctly]

How do you set up your mouse to do this? My razer lachesis cant seem to do this.

 

[Zaraki_Kenpachi]

Aero peek

Not doing anything for me. :/

 

[PetriP-TNT]

How do you set up your mouse to do this? My razer lachesis cant seem to do this.

in firefox:

about:config
middlemouse.contentLoadURL TRUE
middlemouse.openNewWindow TRUE

both of these should be on by default but dunno. should work

edit: forgot browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick TRUE

 

[Joel Was Right]

Better than pressing Ctrl+V and then Enter in an IM chat not realising that you did not paste in a new link of an article you wanted to share, but the URL of unique porn site*

*also applicable to posting a screenshot of your desktop on GAF and not realising one of your tabs/windows is of a similar website

 

[mm04]

I use Shift+Insert to paste in windows =\

Yep, I'm old. I still use Ctrl+Insert, Shift+Delete and Shift+Insert out of habit sometimes.

 

[PetriP-TNT]

Yep, I'm old. I still use Ctrl+Insert, Shift+Delete and Shift+Insert out of habit sometimes.

I use Shift+Delete all the time (deletes a file without putting them to trash can)

 

[Big-E]

in firefox:

about:config
middlemouse.contentLoadURL TRUE
middlemouse.openNewWindow TRUE

both of these should be on by default but dunno. should work

edit: forgot browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick TRUE

Thanks for that but do you know how to do it in chrome? I think the problem could be that currently my middle button is set to universal scrolling which is default on the lachesis but there is no option to make it middle click. I can macro the button but middle click is not an option.

 

[British Monsoon]

For me nothing is quite as annoying as clicking 'Send Image' instead of 'Save Image' - is there a keyboard shortcut in firefox to save an image?

 

[mm04]

I use Shift+Delete all the time (deletes a file without putting them to trash can)

Haha yes, that's the most common use now. But you can also use that as an alternative for cutting text.

 

[StormyTheRabbit]

Rooted Android OS 2.1 Eclair

(What came up when I crtl+v'd)

 

[JoeFu]

Haven't seen this posted yet, ctrl+k to bring you to the search bar and ctrl+up arrow and down arrow to change search engines in Firefox

 

[MThanded]

Solution is CTRL-Z

 

[Dead Prince]

better than CTRL+V thinking that you CTRL+C a link and then you see what you CTRL+V right after you hit ENTER and your friend gets a GAY PORN link instead.

Better than pressing Ctrl+V and then Enter in an IM chat not realising that you did not paste in a new link of an article you wanted to share, but the URL of unique porn site*

*also applicable to posting a screenshot of your desktop on GAF and not realising one of your tabs/windows is of a similar website

FUUUUUUU. should have read before I posted :lol.

 

[FromTheFuture]

Aero peek

I think you mean Windows Key + Tab

 

[brotkasten]

F2 for renaming a file is also pretty nice.

 

[Torquill]

The worst is when you hit Y instead of Ctrl-Y after a bunch of Ctrl-Z.

 

[Zaraki_Kenpachi]

I think you mean Windows Key + Tab

That's not peek. Peek is when things go tranparent like when you go to the bottom right of your taskbar.

 

[Cuban Legend]

If you found that crazy, try using CTRL+T on your web browser and prepare to get mind blown

HOLY SHIT

mind blown gotta ly dow

Now close the tab with CTRL+W .... AND REOPEN IT WITH CTRL+SHIFT+T

MEGAAATOON

goddamn this thread just keeps getting better

 

[brotkasten]

That's not peek. Peek is when things go tranparent like when you go to the bottom right of your taskbar.

That's right. The shortcut for Aero Peek is WIN + Space.

 

[Threi]

far more annoying (which happened right now) is the fact that files are kept in the clipboard until you copy something else or restart, so days later you accidentally right click > "undo move"

...what did you undo?

 

[ronito]

ctrl-shift-t will bring back the tab you just closed in firefox. It's saved me many times.

 

[Zaraki_Kenpachi]

That's right. The shortcut for Aero Peek is WIN + Space.

Ya, I'm still not sure what that guy meant with ctrl+tab for windows 7. I think he was confused with browsers.

 

[elseanio]

I was going to get 'Ctrl+Z' tattooed next to my shit tattoo I got when I was 16. I decided against it (as I should have done 8 years ago :lol )

The shortcut I use most is WinKey+D, to access my object dock. I use Alt+Tab rather than the flashy one too.

 

[soul creator]

ctrl+shift+T genuinely just blew my mind :lol

didn't know about that one. Windows Key + Tab is fun times as well, I've always liked that one just for snazziness (but I miss having expose back when I had a mac)

 

[SpacLock]

Oh man... One time I had some kind of crazy porn link copied from a few hours before and I was talking to this chick through Facebook's instant message system. There was this article or something I was going to link her to, so I highlighted the address and hit what I thought was ctrl+C, but nope, must have been ctrl+d or something. When I hit crtl+v then Enter, she got quite the surprise.

 

[Zeppu]

Middle click opens link in new tab :-o

Edit: Oh mentioned already. You need to set up your mouse? WAT?!

 

[Stat Flow]

I thought everyone knew about the middle key.

But when you have a laptop: Instaclick >>>>>> all

I even use instaclick on my desktop now.

 

[Pizza Luigi]

Yup, that's really annoying. Especially when it's a link or something and you just copy the current link in your browser.

 

[soul creator]

Oh man... One time I had some kind of crazy porn link copied from a few hours before and I was talking to this chick through Facebook's instant message system. There was this article or something I was going to link her to, so I highlighted the address and hit what I thought was ctrl+C, but nope, must have been ctrl+d or something. When I hit crtl+v then Enter, she got quite the surprise.

I bet I know which site it was! harhar