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?
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 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!
Thank you for the tip(s)! That’s two new bookmarked searches for me to go over when I have some free time: EndeavorOS (possible MHA reference?) And alsamixer :D
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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.
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Works in KDE on Linux aswell.
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.
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? It’s just a list of emojis by type with a search box like any phone.
If I type
:handthen [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
Um… thanks, I’ve going to Emojipedia and copy and pasting from there. 🤦♂️
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.
It’s also accessible with
<WinKey> + ;. Not quite sure why Windows has multiple shortcuts for the same menu, but there we are.Not something I should have known, but if you want to continue using phone features on Windows Windows+H opens up the speech2text feature.
Who put the Denko emojis in there?
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! 😆
