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?
Works in KDE on Linux aswell.
😲 Amazing! I’ve just remapped my End key to Windows+. since I have never ever used the End key. :) (Windows PowerToys has a Keyboard Manager function to remap keys.)
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?
I believe it’s similar to AutoHotKey in that the app must be running for rebinding to work, but less complex in there is no advanced scripting I have found so far.
Microsoft PowerToys is basically a suite of small enhancements for Windows that Microsoft knows should be in Windows but for whatever reason can’t integrate directly into the OS yet (due to time, due to conflicts with other functions, who the heck knows). So they’re focused on being small Settings-esque quality of life improvements.
Oh I had no idea what that consisted of but now that you describe it, I think I’ll start running through each improvement and see if it might be useful for my daily workflows. Thank you!
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
Oh nice so you are saying essentially you can submit screenshots directly from the clipboard?
Yep, exactly that. Take screenshot (Win+shift+s) then paste (ctrl-v) into the post box
That’s really neat!
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.
How is it hard to use? It’s just a list of emojis by type with a search box like any phone.
If I type
:handthen [Win+;] I expect the hand emoji section to be shown, or at least the search box to be auto-filled.
I don’t want to touch the mouse to select an emoji, I just type, select (with keyboard) and go on with my writing.
Changing focus to type a search term in a small pupup is non productive.I rechecked just now, the search field is gone in Win11, even more useless now… M$ is not even trying, too focused on adding spyware lol
I think it’s probably the shortcut to open it, I’ve already forgotten it and I just read it a few seconds ago. Something you’d need to use a few times to get used to
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”
Um… thanks, I’ve going to Emojipedia and copy and pasting from there. 🤦♂️
Hey no one ever said having an alternate way to do something is a bad thing! Redundancy is good! Thank you for the tip!
Sure thing. I kinda feel like I just told everyone I get out of a car through the window and I never knew you could open the door. Lol. Thank you for you positivity.
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Lol that’s great! Did you ever complain about how long it takes to travel anywhere? 😂
Wow TIL! Will save a lot of copying and pasting in the future lol.
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.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! 😆
On Android (maybe iOS)? You can hold down on the space key and drag left and right to move the text cursor. Very useful.
Nice I didn’t know that one either! I definitely didn’t just test it while typing out this reply…
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
Works on German locale here out of the box now. (Win 10)
But I also learned about this feature pretty recently.
Super strange that something like this would be language specific, considering it’s all Unicode characters behind the scenes, the emojis anyway yeah?
Has worked for a long time in my Danish version of Windows 10.
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.
thanks to emoji keyboard, I found the clipboard history in windows and made the searching of history easier
Win+V is one of the most powerful functionalities in any operating system IMHO. I use it every day.
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
Win+V opens up your clipboard history so you don’t have to switch tabs in the emoji picker
Awesome! Writing this one down, I think this one will be useful for work as well so it’s made that short list as well! ☺️
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
Honestly, an emoji button should probably make its way into the standard keyboard layout very soon with how prevalent it’s use had become
I vote we sacrifice the right control key, or shorten the right shift key, for this :P
I have Linux and I have emoji’s in my menu. I like emoji’s, always have.
I had no idea an entire world of FOSS applications were available to me. From operating systems to amazing programs that are very feature rich and well maintained. If you’re unhappy with Windows, I suggest downloading Linux Mint to a USB and giving it a shot. You don’t even need to install anything to test drive the OS. If you like it you can an install the OS next too Windows or do what I did and just yeet that crap right off your hard drive and forget it ever existed.
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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That screenshot made me smile immediately, I love stuff that adds character like that.
Thank you for the advice, I’m planning on digging into this a bit tonight once the kids are sleeping, and I might just take you up on that offer if I think of any questions!
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.
Works in KDE Plasma too!
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