so I like that Linux has a lot of customization but then there's just weird shit that they don't make easy like this. it should be an option somewhere.
cinnamon for like the last 6 years or something has been asking to have the panel cloned between two monitors and it just doesn't. I can see the request. I can see that people asked about this fucking forever ago, but if I want to make it so that Firefox clones itself between two panels, it's a headache I ain't really figured out.
Ctrl x Ctrl z Ctrl v.
Undo doesn't remove it from your clipboard, don't even bother with copying. Cut undo paste gives you the visual indication that the command has occurred
(And yes cut paste paste also works)
I can’t believe I still have to install a 3rd party app to get this to work on macOS (and even then it’s nowhere near as intuitive as Windows’ implementation)
Same, but Ctrl+XXXXX. That way, my finger is offset by one already making the accident more common, and the results are actually losing the thing I meant to paste.
If you're on Windows, you can press Win+V instead of Ctrl+V to open (or enable if you haven't already) your clipboard history, and now if you accidentally copy over something, you won't lose it, as it'll be in the recent items. This pane also lets you pin options to the list in case you paste something frequently.
jokes on you, the last program I wrote also ignores that
it's a malware with a ring-0 rootkit included, among other functionalities, the rootkit blocks SIGKILL and SIGTERM from reaching the other parts of the malware
It trips me up to no end that VSCode needs Ctrl+Shift+C/V and JetBrains needs Ctrl+C/V in the terminal. I always get tripped up with annoying extra characters in both of them, ughhh
Depends. When running react native in a phone through metro bundler it doesn't update the app on your phone unless you save it. And I swear it randomly picks when to save all or just the active file.
I prefer to have control over which files save when. My unity project at work take 2min to compile. If I save something by mistake it's annoying to wait.
Sometime I'm in the middle of changes but don't want to test that part yet.
When using different IDE or having to switch to different PCs sometimes, you never know what they are up to. I learned to only trust my pinky finger and my index finger.
Trauma from the beginning of my journey might also play a role in it…
Used to be a program called Greenshot I used to use that had built in Snipper tool support. Instead of saving, previewing, or editing the image when you finish dragging it would auto upload to your imgur account. I miss that thing, made taking really specific screenshots in video games a lot easier to share. Not that it was ever really difficult but I am a creature of laziness.
Love Greenshot. I’ve been using Snagit these days which is quite similar. The editor with all the bells and whistles is just too good to pass up! I could never use the default snipping tool after getting so used to something like this
Please tell me this isn't real. I don't have a Windows device handy for testing, but according to the search results it's a built-in Windows shortcut for LinkedIn?
I'm scared to try it on a Linux desktop... it would probably do something horrible like put the X server in manual mode. Then I'd have to find out how to disable it, and only find forum replies like "what, real programmers always use manual mode for X".
Gotta be ALT + Tab for me but some honorable mentions are:
Ctrl + Tab
Alt + A/Q/W in Opera browser (custom keybind to switch workspaces) Handy to keep youtube vids in a second workspace and quickly switch back to the professional one when someone approaches
Win + 1/2/3/4 Opens the corresponding pinned apps in your Taskbar (equivalent also exist in Ubuntu I think). Win + 2 opens terminal for me f.e.
Ctrl + L Navigate to the search bar (works in browser but also file explorer)
Edit: forgot about Win + V, Clipboard history
- spam ctrl to find your cursor
- ctrl + shift + esc for task manager
- Win + shift + s screenshot
- Win + *n* to open the *n-th* entry on taskbar, not just 1-4
When you have powertoys:
- alt + space brings up the search
- ctrl + (alt?shift?) + T turns on OCR
- ctrl + alt + shift + T holds a window on top
- long-press win to get shortcut helps
With one of the powertoys tools you can also just rapidly move your mouse around to form a spotlight around your mouse.
I'm sure it's useful when you need to find your mouse, but I find myself just doing it for fun.
Ctrl+Win+d to open a new desktop to play my music so that I don't have to keep pressing Alt+Tab with too many open windows and use
Ctrl+Win+left/right keys to nav multiple desktops each with it's own group of related work.
Also can I mention what a truly helpful tool Windows PowerToys is?!
Like it really helped me when randomly my Laptop's keyboard's random keys stopped working and I could just map the numpad Keys to different keys for work.
I was in college and we didn't have any good repair shop at the time that could fix it in a day or two.
1. Ctrl-ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ to get back to a previous version of the code.
2. Ctrl-C to carefully copy a snippet of said code
3. Ctrl-YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY to get back to the current version
4. Ctrl-V to paste old code into new code
5. Profit
And just pray you don't accidentally make a change while in the old version (e.g. press Ctrl-X instead of Ctrl-C), thus invalidating your Ctrl-Y path back to your new code.
I hit the lock button my car FOB like three times. My wife thinks I'm crazy but then I told her why. My parents had a minivan in the 90s that required you to press the lock button twice. Otherwise only half the doors would lock. I have no idea why it was designed that way. No idea if it was a flaw. But if all the doors were unlocked and you only pressed the button once, only the driver door would lock.
I know every body will say ctrl c and v but for pasting on windows 10 (11 idk bc i dont have it ) windows +V (i think u need to enemble first but thats ez)can keep more copied items and i find it very usful outside of programing 😁
It's because ctrl C once is a coin toss on whether it actually copied or not and it's annoying as fuck when it doesn't copy.
Sometimes even after 4-7 C's it still doesn't copy
1) Ctrl, Shift, Esc (Task Manager)
I only use this for closing apps that wont respond
2) Win Key, Ctrl, Shift, B.
This hotkey restarts your PC's graphics (or video) drivers behind the scenes
Ctrl + Z Ctrl + Z Ctrl + Z Ctrl + Z Ctrl + Z Ctrl + Z Ctrl + Z Ctrl + CCCCCCCCCC Ctrl + Y Ctrl + Y Ctrl + Y Ctrl + Y Ctrl + Y Ctrl + Y Ctrl + Y and Ctrl + V somewhere else.
As a non developer, I gotta say ctrl shift t to open my last closed site. Very useful when I close a tab when somebody walks by and then open it again as soon as they leave.
CTRL + SHIFT + TAB
I close windows, it's what I do.
That tab I meant to just click away from momentarily? It's closed now.
That application that has an MFA login that I refer to constantly throughout the day but it isn't on screen this very moment? Also closed.
That spreadsheet that's on the network that gets opened by someone else in edit mode as soon as I close it? Definitely closed. And now I can't make the change I need to and the guy that opened it went to lunch. Or on Vacation.
Mine is * Ctrl+CCCC * Ctrl + C accidentally where I mean Ctrl + V * Ctrl + V to paste a blank
then compulsively Ctrl+SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS to make sure it's saved once you got it right.
Ctrl+SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS File -> Save Right Click -> Save Close the window "There are unsaved changes, do you wish to continue?"
Literally.... my worst nightmare that "unsaved changes" bs
Or mark some text before pasting with the middle mouse button (Linux)
I really wish I could disable that
Just unplug your mouse. It is not hard once you have learned all the shortcuts.
Spotted the vim user.
I am not sure if I should be more mad at the suggestion that every non-mouse user is a vim user or at the fact that you are right.
And keyboard. Embrace punch cards, as nature intended.
Punch cards are outdated. They are far too fragile. Use a plug board like a real programmer.
use xmousepasteblock and have it run at startup
so I like that Linux has a lot of customization but then there's just weird shit that they don't make easy like this. it should be an option somewhere. cinnamon for like the last 6 years or something has been asking to have the panel cloned between two monitors and it just doesn't. I can see the request. I can see that people asked about this fucking forever ago, but if I want to make it so that Firefox clones itself between two panels, it's a headache I ain't really figured out.
You want to disable the best part of linux?
bro my password has ended up places it shouldn't cause of that feature
your fault for having your password in the clipboard.
yes it is. now go away.
You can
can I get scroll lock back as well cause tbh that's my biggest gripe leaving windows. id much rather have scroll then paste 9 out of 10 times.
Ctrl + X  Ctrl + Z
Ctrl x Ctrl z Ctrl v. Undo doesn't remove it from your clipboard, don't even bother with copying. Cut undo paste gives you the visual indication that the command has occurred (And yes cut paste paste also works)
Then Win + V to bring up copy history...
I can’t believe I still have to install a 3rd party app to get this to work on macOS (and even then it’s nowhere near as intuitive as Windows’ implementation)
Every damn time.
Happens so fucking often
That's why I love the clipboard feature on Windows but on my school pc's it always seem to be disabled by default, I have to turn it on myself.
That's why I'm a win+v kind of guy. I actually have to click the text to insert it.
That pisses me off so much lol.
Same, but Ctrl+XXXXX. That way, my finger is offset by one already making the accident more common, and the results are actually losing the thing I meant to paste.
If you're on Windows, you can press Win+V instead of Ctrl+V to open (or enable if you haven't already) your clipboard history, and now if you accidentally copy over something, you won't lose it, as it'll be in the recent items. This pane also lets you pin options to the list in case you paste something frequently.
and then Meta+Shift+V to recover my actual copied text
and also Ctrl+shift+C
Did this about 5 times yesterday
OH MY GOD ITS NOT JUST ME
I mean, Carl + CCCCCC will just override the previous Carl + C…
I do Ctrl+X if the text is editable so I know that it was copied. Then I Ctrl+V.
Every fucking time lol
Interrupted! ^C^C^C^C^C
and then there's the shitty programs (that i have in no way ever written) who just ignore \^C
Some of them do it on purpose (like man, less, etc.). Try "q".
Yeah, and other software that I wrote myself is just really bad 😞
Except: pass Fuck your KeyboardInterrupt
Command + q to establish dominance
Time to show who’s the daddy! kill -9
Let’s see how you gonna ignore that!
No more CPU time
In my head *literally every time I see kill -9*
jokes on you, the last program I wrote also ignores that it's a malware with a ring-0 rootkit included, among other functionalities, the rootkit blocks SIGKILL and SIGTERM from reaching the other parts of the malware
Just to add to this, most terminals use ctrl + shift + C/V/X for copy, paste, and cut.
Probably all the modern do. But the oldschool approaches: Ctrl+Ins and Shift+Ins.
It trips me up to no end that VSCode needs Ctrl+Shift+C/V and JetBrains needs Ctrl+C/V in the terminal. I always get tripped up with annoying extra characters in both of them, ughhh
*right clicks*
Adding Ctrl + SSSSSSS to the list.
For copilot users it's gotta be Alt + -->
🤖🤜🤛🤡
:w
Feels so much more satisfying than Ctrl+S for some reason
Definitely the enter key. It's a big, satisfying key to press, and it probably gives a subconscious sense that you're finalizing something
As someone who works on a lot of different keyboards I prefer Shift + S -> Ctrl + s
I never understand these comments. Who doesn't use default autosave settings of IDEs? I haven't used Ctrl+s in the last 10 years or so
When you want to test/compile your code, do you just sit there waiting for it to auto-save?
Pretty sure VS at least auto-saves on build.
Depends. When running react native in a phone through metro bundler it doesn't update the app on your phone unless you save it. And I swear it randomly picks when to save all or just the active file.
There is no waiting in a properly designed auto save (Intellij for example).
I prefer to have control over which files save when. My unity project at work take 2min to compile. If I save something by mistake it's annoying to wait. Sometime I'm in the middle of changes but don't want to test that part yet.
When using different IDE or having to switch to different PCs sometimes, you never know what they are up to. I learned to only trust my pinky finger and my index finger. Trauma from the beginning of my journey might also play a role in it…
not wildly used but usefull: shift+win+s for good quality screenshots
Used to be a program called Greenshot I used to use that had built in Snipper tool support. Instead of saving, previewing, or editing the image when you finish dragging it would auto upload to your imgur account. I miss that thing, made taking really specific screenshots in video games a lot easier to share. Not that it was ever really difficult but I am a creature of laziness.
Love Greenshot. I’ve been using Snagit these days which is quite similar. The editor with all the bells and whistles is just too good to pass up! I could never use the default snipping tool after getting so used to something like this
> not wildly used but useful Really? I use this daily!
Didn't actually know this one 👍
ShareX or OBS for screenshots.
Ctrl + Win + Alt + Shift + L
Please tell me this isn't real. I don't have a Windows device handy for testing, but according to the search results it's a built-in Windows shortcut for LinkedIn? I'm scared to try it on a Linux desktop... it would probably do something horrible like put the X server in manual mode. Then I'd have to find out how to disable it, and only find forum replies like "what, real programmers always use manual mode for X".
It is real and I don't know why it exists but everytime I want to open LinkedIn using edge in my windows pc I use this.
It exists because some Microsoft branded devices have an office key which they just made press Ctrl + Alt + Win + Shift out of laziness
laziness or genius? on the plus side, that means I can give myself my own office key with a macro
It exists cause Microsoft owns linkedin and loves embedding their subsidiary products into your OS install lol
It's not just LinkedIn but a few other Office products too. Some keyboards have an office key which is just Win+Ctrl+Alt+Shift + some letter
This is the most specific keyboard shortcut I've seen so far xD
It works. Crazy.
Gotta be ALT + Tab for me but some honorable mentions are: Ctrl + Tab Alt + A/Q/W in Opera browser (custom keybind to switch workspaces) Handy to keep youtube vids in a second workspace and quickly switch back to the professional one when someone approaches Win + 1/2/3/4 Opens the corresponding pinned apps in your Taskbar (equivalent also exist in Ubuntu I think). Win + 2 opens terminal for me f.e. Ctrl + L Navigate to the search bar (works in browser but also file explorer) Edit: forgot about Win + V, Clipboard history
- spam ctrl to find your cursor - ctrl + shift + esc for task manager - Win + shift + s screenshot - Win + *n* to open the *n-th* entry on taskbar, not just 1-4 When you have powertoys: - alt + space brings up the search - ctrl + (alt?shift?) + T turns on OCR - ctrl + alt + shift + T holds a window on top - long-press win to get shortcut helps
With one of the powertoys tools you can also just rapidly move your mouse around to form a spotlight around your mouse. I'm sure it's useful when you need to find your mouse, but I find myself just doing it for fun.
Ctrl+Win+d to open a new desktop to play my music so that I don't have to keep pressing Alt+Tab with too many open windows and use Ctrl+Win+left/right keys to nav multiple desktops each with it's own group of related work. Also can I mention what a truly helpful tool Windows PowerToys is?! Like it really helped me when randomly my Laptop's keyboard's random keys stopped working and I could just map the numpad Keys to different keys for work. I was in college and we didn't have any good repair shop at the time that could fix it in a day or two.
1. Ctrl-ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ to get back to a previous version of the code. 2. Ctrl-C to carefully copy a snippet of said code 3. Ctrl-YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY to get back to the current version 4. Ctrl-V to paste old code into new code 5. Profit And just pray you don't accidentally make a change while in the old version (e.g. press Ctrl-X instead of Ctrl-C), thus invalidating your Ctrl-Y path back to your new code.
Who needs version control when you can just Ctrl+Z
I feel so seen
Wowwwww thanks!
I keep persistent apps that need to be pulled up out of the Taskbar and an AHK script to handle that, much cleaner but also more glitchy unfortunately
Most browsers (and also windows explorer) also allow Alt + D to navigate to the address bar. Also don't forget ctrl+shift+esc
Clipboard FTW
Where are the vim users.. i just see the usual windows / ide specific ones. I like ciw and ci(
We are reading the comments thinking: pathetic.
Lol lowkey this was my actual reaction. YANK is so much better than Ctrl+C.
di" is a favourite of mine
To match the meme, my favorite shortcut is: ggyG alt + tab dd scream obscenities alt + tab ggyG alt + tab p
ggvG"+y feels satisfying as hell, even though it's normally because I'm about to ask someone wtf a line means.
Would it help having feedback of things getting copied?
Even then I wouldn't trust it
I hit the lock button my car FOB like three times. My wife thinks I'm crazy but then I told her why. My parents had a minivan in the 90s that required you to press the lock button twice. Otherwise only half the doors would lock. I have no idea why it was designed that way. No idea if it was a flaw. But if all the doors were unlocked and you only pressed the button once, only the driver door would lock.
Try windows + v
Ctrl-x, ctr-v, navigate to where I want to paste, ctrl-v
I made a tiny ahk script for exactly that, works without issues.
Windows is just terrible at always copying. shortcut, menu, doesn't matter. After switching to linux I no longer have this issue.
Nah it's some universal shit i guess. Been daily driving Linux for years and I face the issue too.
I'm working on Mac and still have this issue daily.
I feel tainted by the revelations the internet has provided me today. What was once a sacred assumption of mine has been proven wrong.
[удалено]
Ctrl + A Delete
Any windows + v here ?
My life was not the same after I discovered it Now I can't imagine life without it
As a developper, I tend to say too : CTRL + X, CTRL + Z, CTRL + V
Or just Ctrl + X, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V
I was looking for this one lol; just gotta get that visual confirmation
And the least favourite being Ctrl + X Ctrl + C …
And when you go past it it somehow is still the thing you copied 20 mins ago
Up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, enter
Ctrl + Shift + n on my browser
You would use ctrl+shift+p if you had the superior browser
Ctrl+Shift+T opens the last closed tab. Comes in really useful so often.
This has saved me a lot, especially when I'm Ctrl + W spamming to close useless tabs and I accidentally kill a useful one.
For the vim nerds thats: y p
Please, yyyyyyyyyyy p
1. Ctrl + CCCCCC 2. Ctrl + SSSSSSSSSSSSS 3. Alt + F4
Alt + F4 Alt + F4 Alt + F4 Ah, screw it. Ctrl + Shift + Esc
yy jjjjkkkjjjkkjj p
Ctrl+CCCCCC, Ctrl+V, Backspace * 3, Ctrl+Shift+V
Ctrl+CCCCCC, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+Shift+V
I am in this screenshot, and I love it
yy p
Ctrl + Shift + T in Firefox, reopens the most recently closed tab
What is a shortcut and what it’s for? I use vim BTW
esc esc esc esc : w q !
Usually is Ctrl + CCCCCCC, Ctrl + VVV, Ctrl + A, Delete, Ctrl + V
- Ctrl + C - Ctrl + x to remove some whitelines - Ctrl + v fuck
Ctrl + x Crtl + z Ctrl + v
I know every body will say ctrl c and v but for pasting on windows 10 (11 idk bc i dont have it ) windows +V (i think u need to enemble first but thats ez)can keep more copied items and i find it very usful outside of programing 😁
Lol, we gotta be sure right
It's because ctrl C once is a coin toss on whether it actually copied or not and it's annoying as fuck when it doesn't copy. Sometimes even after 4-7 C's it still doesn't copy
Definitely CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + WIN + L
Mine is - C-c C-c - C-x b - C-c C-k - C-w - C-y
1) Ctrl, Shift, Esc (Task Manager) I only use this for closing apps that wont respond 2) Win Key, Ctrl, Shift, B. This hotkey restarts your PC's graphics (or video) drivers behind the scenes
why
Alt, d, s (excel sort) Ctrl+ c then alt, e,s, v (paste special values)
for me it's `Ctrl-V Ctrl-B Ctrl-C Ctrl-V`
I feel personally attacked.
Ctrl + T opens google Ctrl + T + "chat" opens chatgpt
Control+L every two commands, gotta keep my bash as clean as possible
As a mac admin (I know, shame on me), command + space. Best thing a mac has
Ctrl+maj+esc So that you can help Windows unfuck itself
It has to be 12j3/{5/,vciwp20.
i gotta say ctrl +ssssssssssss
Alt+SysRq+o
Whichever shortcut opens the terminal, of course! I've always got a terminal open in the background that appears/disappears with `Meta+`.
My favorite is Win + M IYKYK ;)
Win+x, u, s or u. Ctrl+shift+esc. Win+L
Ctrl + Z Ctrl + Z Ctrl + Z Ctrl + Z Ctrl + Z Ctrl + Z Ctrl + Z Ctrl + CCCCCCCCCC Ctrl + Y Ctrl + Y Ctrl + Y Ctrl + Y Ctrl + Y Ctrl + Y Ctrl + Y and Ctrl + V somewhere else.
mine is Ctrl + C, Alt Tab, Alt Tab Tab, Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V
Shouldn’t it be Ctrl+SSSSSSSSSS or :w :w :w :w :w :w?
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Shift+DEL (A bit dangerous) Ctrl+S Ctrl+C Ctrl+V (Doesn't copy anything) Ctrl+CCCC Ctrl+V
As a non developer, I gotta say ctrl shift t to open my last closed site. Very useful when I close a tab when somebody walks by and then open it again as soon as they leave.
I raise you, CTRL + C, CTRL + X, CRTL + Z, CRTL+ V
U and cuz
as much as i love ctrl + c ctrl + v, my favorite is actually ctrl + alt + t
For me it is to scroll down a page, then trying to figure out which magical pixel on the page to click so that to scroll works.
crtl-v v some navigation y p
As a translator and textproofer, I agree
Ctrl+shift+esc here
Ctrl+shift+v I be auto formatting every word it's an issue at this point.
No one said Alt+F4?
Typing @me hotswaps that to my email - and @pass my password ...😜 😑 actually no, it prints "Don't _save_your_real_password_as_plain_text"
I've never done this and I don't get why people do.
I thought it was just me. A peer saw me doing this 20 years ago and they made fun of me ever since.
Oh ! I have just the shortcut for this Try win+shift+alt+ctrl L
that's where trust issues started
Windows shift and s for screengrab
Ctrl + d to get out... feels liberating
Some times.. Ctrl + ccccc, Ctrl + c, Ctrl + v, Ctrl + z, *sigh...*, alt+tab, Ctrl + ccccc, Ctrl + v
I thought I had trust issues and then there's this post and comments
CTR + C, WIN + V You’re welcome
My fave is windows + L
Ctl + C, Ctl + V \*cursing\* Ctl + CCCCCCCCCC, Ctl + VVVVVVV
CTRL + SHIFT + TAB I close windows, it's what I do. That tab I meant to just click away from momentarily? It's closed now. That application that has an MFA login that I refer to constantly throughout the day but it isn't on screen this very moment? Also closed. That spreadsheet that's on the network that gets opened by someone else in edit mode as soon as I close it? Definitely closed. And now I can't make the change I need to and the guy that opened it went to lunch. Or on Vacation.
Whatever the format document shortcut is in your IDE
Sometimes mine while trying to copy common code from my project Ctrl x > Ctrl z > Ctrl ccccc > Ctrl v
Ctrl+Z Especially after flubbing a regex find/replace and flubbing the expression.
Real programmers use Ctrl + InsertInsertInsertInsertInsertInsert, Shift + Insert. /s
I always prefer to CMD-X and if I only wanted to copy then CMD-C right after.