If you have “Help” instead of “Ins”, replace it with Overgod-tier. Keep pressing it, it will come.
OC, feel free to share.
EDIT; Home is now G-od tier. I didn’t know it would go to the beginning of a line, I always used macros “lol”.
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Don’t you dare come for my Pause key! That’s the one I’ve remapped to launch the screen lock!
What about the context menu key?
Where’s the ‘PtrSc’ key? On Peter’s keyboard presumably.
PrtSc, so it’s on Pirate’s Screen.
Pressing ScrLk twice and then the number of the port switches to this port on the KVM switch in the office. Very specific use case, but still.
Pause … I have no idea. If I remember correctly you can, well, pause terminal output with it, but I never tried.
The rest of the keys I use regularly.
I saw the picture before reading the edit and was trying to imagine what OP was doing that made the end key significantly more useful than the home key, like not going backwards on principle or something.
I’ll take home over pgup/down any day.
Also Menu key is pretty obscure, I consider it a yellow, since it’s useful when you don’t have a mouse, but there are other shortcuts that can do it (shift+f10)
Pause is useless but only because escape steals all it’s usecases in apps.The only tool I know that uses it prominently is Windbg
What about the Any key?
Titan tier. I press it every time a program tells me to.
Sure, but I ordered a Tab ages ago and it still hasn’t arrived.
No one’s gonna throw shade at the ≣ key? Aka the Menu Key?
It’s next to useless. It’s almost always used to open the right-click menu, which is specifically for GUIs and based on the mouse position… so why not just right-click? What silly person is using their mouse except to bring up the context menu?
I’d say the same about the Super Key (❖) Aka The Windows Key, but I got i3wm on my laptop and I am loving having a GUI without needing to use my mortal enemy: the Trackpad. Plus it’s a minor time-save above moving windows/clicking menus with the mouse; still doesn’t apply to Menu when your finger’s already hovering over the RMB.
I have to disagree with the Windows key being useless. Win+Shift+S for selective screen grab to clipboard. Win+E to open a new Explorer window. Win+D to show the desktop. They were my go-tos. Now I’m forced to use Mac I use the Win key all the time too, Win+C, Win+V…
It’s so useless that Microsoft recently announced it’s going to replace it with a button for their stupid AI bullshit Copilot
I use it to open the spell checker options while I’m typing. It’s annoying to have to switch from keyboard to mouse. My current laptop doesn’t have the key and I even added another short key.
The super key, again, is useful so you don’t have to switch between keyboard and mouse when searching for an app. It is also the modifier for all GUI shortcuts.
According to the ancient list of standard keyboard shortcuts (generally made famous by Microsoft, but used elsewhere before and after), the context menu was Shift+F10 anyway. Plain F10 being the main menu. A context menu key wasn’t really needed.
Even the Windows key had the alternative binding Ctrl+Esc for those people who had old keyboards. That’s why Ctrl+Shift+Esc called up Task Manager. Related meanings and all that. Arguably though, the Windows key being associated with the space-cadet keyboard’s Super functionality was a stroke of genius on the part of Linux adopters. It’s also why Alt is often called “Meta”.
I’m surprised the context menu key hasn’t been called and used as “Hyper”, but then there is only one on a modern PC keyboard. There’s two of all the others.
(Given the precedent, Alt+F10 ought to be the window manager’s “title bar” menu, but the Alt+F# shortcuts are a separate, older, family. Most aren’t implemented by default these days, but the famous don’t press it without thinking Alt+F4 to close the window is part of it. Alt+Space is what’s used instead for the aforementioned menu.)
Super/Windows key isn’t useless… It gives you another modifier key. Since apps don’t really use it, you can use it for global shortcuts without the risk of collisions with shortcut keys that individual apps support like you would with Ctrl, Alt and Shift.
Something that I have come to appreciate about MacOS. The ctrl modifier is completely free from the OS so, I don’t have to worry about terminal commands causing unexpected side effects.
I absolutely love being able to command+c and command+v in my terminals.
I use the menu key in my terminal emulator to paste from the clipboard. Just Menu -> P. There’s probably a shortcut, but this works.
Very nice! Jsyk, you can also use Shift + Ctrl + V for the one handed paste (likewise Shift + Ctrl + C to copy), or Shift + Insert (and Ctrl + Insert to copy) works too. If you’re on Windows, right clicking in CMD/Powershell pastes, Enter copies anything highlighted, and Ctrl + V work as usual… Ctrl + C copies too, except when a command/script is actively running, in which case it sends the halt signal, so use it at your own risk.
I usually stick to the Ctrl + Shift shortcuts, but it messes me up when I’m trying to copy from firefox into my terminal and I accidentally bring up the devtools instead
Jsyk, you can also use Shift + Ctrl + V for the one handed paste (likewise Shift + Ctrl + C to copy), or Shift + Insert (and Ctrl + Insert to copy) works too.
TIL, works in xfce4-terminal, thank you!
Don’t take my pause key from me that’s the best key! I just want pausable games to bind with that key again like they used to, guys it’s right there by name and everything. Just started playing rollercoaster tycoon 2 again and, after the mandatory drowning of the first person I saw, I was delighted to find the pause key pauses the game. Even better is if I need to take a break from something pause/break is inclusive of it all. I can walk away from what I’m up to for minute and don’t have to worry that the machine is going to feel abandoned because it’s right there on the key just taking a break little buddy I’ll be back.
They are all useful, except for maybe Pause. Ctrl+Insert and Shift+Insert ist like Ctrl-C Ctrl-V, but it works in terminals too. Home goes to the beginning of the line. Shift+Home marks the line from current position until the beginning.
They are all useful, except for maybe Pause.
And Scroll Lock?
It’s useful for UltraVNC to pass through key combos like alt-tab without triggering them on the local PC.
Scroll lock is useful for Excel. It makes the arrow keys scroll the spreadsheet without changing the currently selected cell. This was actually the original use case for the scroll lock key.
I actually had no clue since whenever I pressed it nothing happens.
Wasn’t it also used to stop terminals (I’m talking, old-ass, mainframe terminals here) auto scrolling even before that ?
I think the pause/break key did that.
Oh, ok.
Ctrl+ pgup/ pgdn.
Moving tabs in Vscode or browsers.
God Tier on thinkpad keyboard.
I must be in the minority. I haven’t used any of these keys in over a decade. Probably more like 15 years at this point. Command + something can replace almost all of these, so why waste an extra key on it.
Really you just need a command key, get rid of the rest. Hold it down for different lengths of time to indicate which key input you want.
You joke, but my caps lock on my laptop keyboard is mapped to command and if I double tap it and hold it’s my hyper key. On my crkbd keyboard if I hold
ait’s option and semicolon is control. I have quite a lot of keys like this. It’s very efficient.There’s a comedy sketch from about twenty years ago where that happens but I can’t find it at the mo.
You still use keys?
I was about to say home being useful cause it helps to get to the beginning of the page but its already mentioned in the description of the post 😂😂😂
Insert is extremely useful in any editing situation. Right after Find and Replace.
Except in VS Code -.-
tbh I’ve been saved by VS Code ignoring a fat fingering of the Insert key by mistake far more times than I’ve actually wanted it to work as intended.
on debian based system PrntScr actually prints stuff you’re looking at in a terminal, if a printer is configured. learned that the hard way, accidentally printing hundreds of pages of html source
Well, Print screen is literally written on it, so you got what you wanted
well yes, but i hit it by accident and it didn’t ask and there wasn’t even a notification. the printer was in another room, so i couldn’t even hear it. (it was at work)
Yeah, it was supposed to be a loud matrix printer on your computer with a parallel cable
