I am posting this because I am ashamed I just found out it existed, and I thought I would subject the rest of my Beehaw friends to the same experience! 😁

The instructions are super simple, Windows Key + . (period) opens up a little overlay which contains Emojis, GIFs, Clipboard, and some other stuff I’m not sure is useful.

Ill end this post with a question for you all:

-What was something you learned about technology FAR later than you SHOULD have?

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      It’s been a long time since I’ve given Linux much of an opportunity, I think I will give Mint a try.

      It sounds like you are talking about running it in a virtual desktop first, dual booting with my current Windows OS. Is that accurate?

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      The last time I downloaded Linux mint to give it a try was the day before they announced the ISO from the official site had been injected with malicious code. Bad timing for my interest in using Linux, lol.

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    Um… thanks, I’ve going to Emojipedia and copy and pasting from there. 🤦‍♂️

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      Hey no one ever said having an alternate way to do something is a bad thing! Redundancy is good! Thank you for the tip!

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    In case you didn’t notice, you can immediately start typing as soon as you press that keyboard shortcut (Windows and .) to search through the Emoji.

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      Thank you I didn’t notice that yet! Immediately reminds me of how the start menu works with the built in search bar.

      I shoulda known I was going to get a bunch of good tips back from posting this! 😆

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    Win key+shift+s brings up a more advanced screenshot menu. It defaults to cropped screenshot, where you can select which part of the screen to save.

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      In an upcoming Windows build the printscreen key will also invoke the screenshot tool by default, though you can revert it back to the old function if you prefer. Handy!

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    On Android (maybe iOS)? You can hold down on the space key and drag left and right to move the text cursor. Very useful.

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      Nice I didn’t know that one either! I definitely didn’t just test it while typing out this reply…

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    You can paste screenshots straight into a Lemmy post and it is automatically uploaded and linked for you. I use this to paste whatever I’ve just captured with Win+shift+s

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    Yep, it’s a quite old feature, but don’t get too excited, it’s a pain in the neck to use. It’s like they put it there without even using it. Very unfriendly experience.

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        I think it’s probably the shortcut to open it, I’ve already forgotten it and I just read it a few seconds ago. Someone you’d need to use a few times to get used to

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          I agree, I think it’s only going to work for me with memorizing it because one of the MMORPGs I used to play used the period key for chat options, so I’m piggybacking on that.

          The shortcut choice sort of screams “there weren’t many shortcuts left”

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    I only found out about the emoji keyboard when I got a Microsoft ergo keyboard at work, and it has a dedicated button for the emoji keyboard

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      Honestly, an emoji button should probably make its way into the standard keyboard layout very soon with how prevalent it’s use had become

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    On IBus, Ctrl+. can be used for typing emoji.

    A neat feature of Firefox is that Alt V Z T makes zoom adjust text sizes without blowing everything else up in size.

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      Good idea, get that tool over to a better shortcut ASAP! Thanks for the tip! Is that similar to using AutoHotKey or is it more of a different approach to remapping keys or shortcuts?

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      I actually hadn’t clicked the clipboard tab yet to see the extent of that tool, so thank you for pointing that out. That might actually be the most useful part of this tool so far

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      Win+V is one of the most powerful functionalities in any operating system IMHO. I use it every day.

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    IIRC this feature used to only be available in English locale and needed a registry hack to enable it on other locales. That might not be the case anymore

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      Works on German locale here out of the box now. (Win 10)

      But I also learned about this feature pretty recently.

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      Super strange that something like this would be language specific, considering it’s all Unicode characters behind the scenes, the emojis anyway yeah?

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      Sounds like maybe when they released the feature initially? Although I’m more thinking of the normal style of rollout where they trial a region first.

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    yeah someone shared that with me just recently. it’s really nice since on my laptop I’d always use the twitter emoji picker, or the discord emoji shortcodes (I prefer the latter, honestly). but on kbin and other sites there’s no emoji picker or shortcodes so I was kinda stuck lol.