Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994

• 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.

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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• FishFace@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s the key I use as a compose key

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• 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.

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  • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    the key

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    • snowe@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      thanks for the picture. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before. Just to check, I went over and looked at my wife’s work laptop and it’s not on that keyboard, but it is on her external keyboard, but not as a separate key, it’s part of the print screen button! Image

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• HidingCat@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I use the app/menu all the time in Excel.

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• richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I use it as a Compose key with WinCompose.

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