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?
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!
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.
Exactly! That’s actually what forced me into finding out about this way of going about it. I think searching for solutions might be some sort of a hobby of mine lol
Ha! I gotta admit I had no idea what Denko Emojis were until I did a quick search. It does seem exceptionally odd that there is a whole section dedicated to these, right? lol
I had a coworker who used to send a wide range of these all the time though, I wonder if this was his trick all along.
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.
Thank you for the tip(s)! That’s two new bookmarked searches for me to go over when I have some free time: EndeavorOS (possible MHA reference?) And alsamixer :D
😲 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!
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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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.
You can change the default behavior of the Print Screen key to open the Snipping Tool (what you’re talking about). It’s in Windows settings.
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!
Yes, I’ve been using this for a while on my work computer with win11, neat little feature.
I use this so much for work and it makes it so much simpler to share anything from pictures to parts of a OneNote notebook!
It’s also accessible with
<WinKey> + ;. Not quite sure why Windows has multiple shortcuts for the same menu, but there we are.Lol it’s right next to the original shortcut too, maybe in case we fat finger it!
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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.
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.
Exactly! That’s actually what forced me into finding out about this way of going about it. I think searching for solutions might be some sort of a hobby of mine lol
Not something I should have known, but if you want to continue using phone features on Windows Windows+H opens up the speech2text feature.
Nice! I don’t use speech to text often but it is one of those things you will miss when you do need it. Thank you!
That works surprisingly well. Although maybe turn the TV down …
Thank you!
Who put the Denko emojis in there?
Ha! I gotta admit I had no idea what Denko Emojis were until I did a quick search. It does seem exceptionally odd that there is a whole section dedicated to these, right? lol
I had a coworker who used to send a wide range of these all the time though, I wonder if this was his trick all along.
I didn’t know about this. Just looked it up on Mac (MacOS). It’s the Globe Key + E. If you don’t have a Globe Key, it’s FN Key + E.
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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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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.
You just taught me how to do the same thing, except I’m using EndeavourOS! Thank you! 😁
As for me, I learned how to deal with audio issues using alsamixer!
Thank you for the tip(s)! That’s two new bookmarked searches for me to go over when I have some free time: EndeavorOS (possible MHA reference?) And alsamixer :D
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Lol that’s great! Did you ever complain about how long it takes to travel anywhere? 😂
😲 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!
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
With the latest PowerToys you can make that happen :)
I found this info via HowToGeek.
Works in KDE on Linux aswell.
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.