Mine is using the arrow keys to navigate typed text while writing and editing. It helps speed things up, versus having to move your hand to the mouse to navigate.

Use the Up and Down Arrows to move/jump vertically.

Left and Right Arrows to move/jump horizontally.

Combine Left or Right Arrow with Shift to be able to select text. Use Up or Down Arrow with Shift to quickly select whole/nearly whole sections of text.

Combine Control with Left/Right Arrow to jump whole words to more quickly move to where you want to type.

  • momentary@lemmy.ml
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    13 days ago

    I’m a web dev and one “hack” I use all the time is bookmarklets. In Chrome @bookmarks let’s you search your bookmarks, so I use this to fire off different scripts to do different things. Most are for debugging and the like. I have my hotkeys setup where ctrl + q puts focus on the omnibar so I can start typing, and then I use @books marks to search for whatever I need. A lot of the bookmarklets just append the current url to some other site like page speed insights or pure.md. I find this saves me a ton of time. Also the duplicate this tab hotkey, I use that all day every day.

  • KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de
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    14 days ago

    Linux Mint stand-in for Ctrl+Alt+Del on Windows, for when you can’t open system monitor:

    Get an interactive top you like > When PC freezes go to tty, open top, works like a task manager

  • jaschen306@sh.itjust.works
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    13 days ago

    Yay, nobody said my favorite hack.

    While browsing on the web and you want to “open link into a new tab”, click using the mouse wheel like it’s a regular left or right click.

    It’s great for researching.

  • mriswith@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Far from most used, but very handy: ctrl+win+shift+b

    It restarts the graphic subsystem, which can help recover from situations where game crashes or similar cause visual issues.

  • gurapo@lemmy.pt
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    14 days ago

    Not too sure if you can do this in windows, but I’ve enjoyed mapping alt+tab and alt+shift+tab to windows+mouse scroll

  • Randomocity@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    14 days ago

    My favorite windows shortcut is ‘Windows+shift+left/right’ to move an application between monitors. Very helpful for moving games around or snapping without have to use a mouse.

  • N00b22@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    14 days ago

    1. Shift + Tab (also works on Linux)

    2. If you have a mouse with side buttons, you can use the side buttons to go back or go to the next page on browsers

    3. Pressing Alt + F4 on the desktop opens up a dialog asking if you want to shut down, restart, log out, etc. (I think this works on Linux as well)

  • tatterdemalion@programming.dev
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    14 days ago

    Use a tiling window manager like sway.

    Get some big HDDs and self host your own file storage on zfs. Same for media servers like jellyfin. You can also host qBitTorrent web client so it’s accessible from anywhere.

    Set up a VM in Hetzner cloud and host vaultwarden.

    Expose your services over wireguard.

  • folekaule@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    My main one is to learn shortcuts on your most used programs. Using the mouse for everything is a waste of time, but that has been said multiple times.

    My second is to create scripts to do a bunch of repetitive tasks. For example, I have a script I run on my work PC after I log on to the VPN that starts my “always on” programs (like notepad++), unlocks the hosts file, etc. I have some sendto scripts for converting files with pandoc, fetching multiple git repos in one go, etc. It just speeds up things and avoids errors versus me doing them manually.

    On Windows I use PowerShell and on Linux I use bash, meaning they work without additional software installed.

  • starman@programming.devEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Not most used, but I recently discovered a lot of new options in COSMIC’s launcher, and I use them all the time.

    Just type ? and you’ll see what I mean.

  • TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    13 days ago

    Are you serious? arrow keys instead of clicking? let’s take it further:

    shift+arrow highlights letters
    ctrl+arrow skips entire words
    ctrl+shift+arrow highlights entire words
    home/end jumps to start/end of line
    ctrl+home/end jumps to start/end of text box
    ctrl+shift+home/end jumps to start/end of textbox and highlights it
    um, do you need me to explain what ctrl+xcv do? or ctrl+zy? or ctrl+asdwerfgop?

    isn’t this just basic typing? didnt yall learn this in the 90s??? how are you all on the internet right now

    wait til you hear about how i swipe texted all this

  • Drekaridill@feddit.is
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    14 days ago

    Ctrl + shift + esc brings up the Windows task manager directly instead of the menu you get when you press ctrl + alt + del

    • mriswith@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      14 days ago

      Just remember that ctrl+alt+del is a system level interrupt that should always work as long as the kernel is running. Ctrl+shift+esc is not, and won’t work in some situations like being used inside a fullscreen frozen program.

  • JamonBear@sh.itjust.works
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    13 days ago

    Using ublock origin picker to remove everything useless. Like, Youtube suggestions, everything but download button on ddl websites, useless footers/headers on news, etc…

    • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      13 days ago

      Just getting people to switch away from chrome to get ublock origin is a major hack all itself and completely changed the way you use the internet.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      13 days ago

      Why have I not been doing this?! Just removed the “2 years old” .world banner.