I mean, they did it before with the windows/super button. Before that you just had ctrl and alt there.
Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994
thehatfox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So now Windows bloat is extending to the physical keyboard itself.
Looking at the Microsoft blog post they haven’t said exactly how they want keyboard layouts to change. So on a full size keyboard this could be either new key entirely, or replace an existing (and arguably more useful) key.
jonne@infosec.pub 10 months ago
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I use mainly keyboard-controlled WM configurations, so a Super key or a Meta key is useful for me, to separate it from Alt and Ctrl.
Which reminds us of the fact that PC keyboards didn’t have those or a Windows key obviously, but Sun keyboards, from googling, did have a Super key.
So it’s not them.
(And it’s not bad in my opinion)
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
I always assumed the windows key was a late attempt at copying the “Apple” keys on Macs. then Macs stopped using that, and switched to the clover (called command), then to actual Command text.
MudMan@kbin.social 10 months ago
I don't remember the last time I pressed the "right click" contextual menu key, so honestly it's not like it'll be too annoying. Unless they do replace an actually useful key, at which point I guess the people making "make Windows actually work good" apps will get to live another year.
Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
I pressed it like, 20 minutes ago? It’s a pretty normal part of a lot of coding workflow, not to mention browsing, accessing context menu keyboard shortcuts without having to move your hand to the mouse for one buttonpress.
MudMan@kbin.social 10 months ago
Fair enough. Alt used to be that before we decided to have a button to annoyingly pop up the menu strip. And there's still Alt Gr for that in full sized keyboards if we want to go back that way.
Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Alt Gr is something else. Non-english keyboards use it all day every day for typing their charactersets.
It could probably replace the right OS key, though.
FishFace@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s the key I use as a compose key
snowe@programming.dev 10 months ago
I’ve never even heard of this key that you are talking about, yet it’s mentioned several times in this thread.
Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
snowe@programming.dev 10 months ago
HidingCat@kbin.social 10 months ago
I use the app/menu all the time in Excel.
richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 10 months ago
I use it as a Compose key with WinCompose.
Kalkaline@leminal.space 10 months ago
So long Caps Lock/Scroll Lock
msage@programming.dev 10 months ago
I remap Caps Lock to Escape.
. . . .
How did you know I am a Vim user?
kibiz0r@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Same. TouchBar Macs inadvertently forced me to move to a more comfy layout.
BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
CTRL+[ YA LUDDITES! /s
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Then you had all those “for the web” Windows 95 PCs that had all the extra buttons like the Calculator and Web Browser and Sleep buttons scattered around above the keyboard that I don’t think people tended to use because Windows wasn’t built with them in mind. It seems they’re in the keyboard standard now as if they were any other key.
thehatfox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah there were some wacky keyboard shortcut buttons in the 90s, particularly during the dot com bubble. Perhaps we could bring back the pizza key!
Turun@feddit.de 10 months ago
My keyboard has mail/browser/home/suspend keys in the corner. I use suspend and home (to get to the set main page in the browser) everyday.
Fermion@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Swap it with the windows key and put the windows key as the function modified keyless. As long as I can still disable that key, it would be fine.
killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They should put it adjacent to the up arrow key so that when I hit it accidentally, copilot can ask “did you mean to press the up arrow key?”, which will cause me to smash the keyboard with my fists and then I’ll need to buy another one. Sales will skyrocket.
QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Not particularly relevant, but my friend randomly told me to press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Windows key+L one day. I’m still horrified.
TheCannonball@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I just tried this. Why does this exist? Why does this need to be a shortcut? Who uses LinkedIn so much that they need to use a 5 key shortcut to get there faster?
merc@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
For anybody who doesn’t want to try it, this key combo opens LinkedIn in your default browser.
It’s not a setting you can change, the only way to disable it is to edit the registry.
WTF.
LinuxSBC@lemm.ee 10 months ago
They have an “Office Key” on some official keyboards. Pressing Office+L opens LinkedIn. The Office key is actually mapped to that long modifier shortcut.
Promethiel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Did you think the MS C-Suite does much other than bloviate on LinkedIn in-between (and during) meetings? It’s for them and execs everywhere.
crsu@lemmy.world 10 months ago
🤢 🤢 🤢 🤢 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮
richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 10 months ago
Damn, that works in Windows 10 as well. Blech.