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! 😁

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?

  • IllNess@infosec.pubEnglish
    2·
    2 年前

    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.

  • Yutopianist@kbin.social
    2·
    2 年前

    You just taught me how to do the same thing, except I’m using EndeavourOS! Thank you! 😁

    As for me, I learned how to deal with audio issues using alsamixer!

  • Bucket_of_Truth@kbin.social
    2·
    2 年前

    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.

    • Opteryx@beehaw.org
      0·
      2 年前

      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!

  • hybrid havoc@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    2 年前

    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.

  • simonced@lemmy.oneEnglish
    1·
    2 年前

    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.

      • simonced@lemmy.oneEnglish
        1·
        2 年前

        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

  • IllNess@infosec.pubEnglish
    1·
    2 年前

    Um… thanks, I’ve going to Emojipedia and copy and pasting from there. 🤦‍♂️

    • Rekorse@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
      1·
      2 年前

      Hey no one ever said having an alternate way to do something is a bad thing! Redundancy is good! Thank you for the tip!

      • IllNess@infosec.pubEnglish
        2·
        2 年前

        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.

  • techno156@kbin.social
    1·
    2 年前

    It’s also accessible with <WinKey> + ;. Not quite sure why Windows has multiple shortcuts for the same menu, but there we are.

  • Shiroa@kbin.social
    1·
    2 年前

    Not something I should have known, but if you want to continue using phone features on Windows Windows+H opens up the speech2text feature.

  • dan@upvote.auEnglish
    0·
    2 年前

    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.

    • Rekorse@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
      1·
      2 年前

      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! 😆