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

Pxtl@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Melt@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve never intentionally used F1 key to open help before

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  • lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Annoying when you accidentally hit it instead of ESC in certain Windows programs, loading Microsoft’s windows help website in your browser without your consent.

    On Linux it usually does nothing, as it should.

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    • Octopus1348@lemy.lol ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, technically with your consent.

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    • nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Even worse when it does it in Edge

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    • HelloHotel@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Doesnt it in gnome and KDE open the “about” page with a help button somewhere on it?

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  • tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s why I remapped it to toggle my notes app

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• edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  F6 goes to the address bar in (many? most?) web browsers

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  • Octopus1348@lemy.lol ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I always use Ctrl+L if not Ctrl+T to open a new tab.

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  • nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And F7 triggers caret browsing

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• DrDeadCrash@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  F7 for spell check (shift F7 for thesaurus)

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• laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  F8 is for “execute selected code”

  Then again, F5 is for “run current script” or “compile and run program”…

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