Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap.

morto@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I reckon the co pilot key is used more than the key it replaced. I dont even know what that key did.

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  • Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    On laptops it usually replaces right ctrl, sometimes right alt.
    Both these are needed to make lots of shortcuts viable, or possible at all with one hand.

    right alt is also an importand 3rd shift layer for many languages’ keyboards, hence them replacing right ctr often instead of the less popular alt.

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  • definitemaybe@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The open menu key. It’s the one I remap to Compose (for special characters, like Comp±-- to get —).

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  • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you remap alt to ctrl as God intended, then this key would take the place of alt.

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• redlemace@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Let’s be grateful, they could have swapped it with the spacebar.

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• JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  When was the last time you on purpose used the application key on your keyboard to open the right-click context menu so you could navigate it using the arrow keys? Because that is the key it replaced - Microsoft has demanded for the last 32 years that the two spaces CTRL and ALT on Windows compatible keyboards are used for the Windows key, and the Application Key.

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  • morto@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Well… I use it. I find it faster to use than the middle click gesture in the touchpad and the touchpad’s buttons are awful to press, so I use the keyboard button and navigate with the touchpad

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    • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Is a middle click even an option on a touchpad? I get annoyed that I can’t even right click hold and then left click. Rip fishing minigames on trackpad

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      • morto@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Tapping with 2 fingers usually works as a middle click, but sometimes it fail for me, sending a single click instead

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  • SqueakyBeaver@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    My laptop has a control key there. I know on some larger desktop keyboards there’s the application key, but I’ve not seen one on many keyboards from the last 10 years

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  • FreshLight@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Today. I don’t like mouse inputs.

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  • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve used it yesterday. Haven’t been at the desktop today, but will use the key when I get at it.

    Normally it’s mapped to alt in my setup, while alt is remapped to ctrl, but I haven’t gotten around to figuring out how to do that with Cinnamon. Meanwhile, Double Commander allows adding useful actions in the context menu, and Emacs has the commands menu (M-x) mapped to the ‘application’ key.

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  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I used it regularly before I got a keyboard that turned out to have a useless Fn in its place

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  • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    TIL I even had an application key there. I don’t think I’ve ever used it.

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• REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You could even argue that bottom row is for command keys, not function keys like F keys or print, pause, etc., but then again Fn key is literally called function

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