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.

  • BigPotato@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    Control Backspace deletes whole words. Misspelled control? Faster to delete and retype than move my cursor around when I’m on a roll.

    • Mr. Satan@lemmy.zip
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      21 days ago

      Not a computer hack, but some phone keyboards have backspace and whitespace drag, the former allowing to select a range form the cursor to delete and the latter moving the cursor. Way more usable than trying to fat finger cursor position and selection.

  • gurapo@lemmy.pt
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    21 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

  • jaschen306@sh.itjust.works
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    21 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.

  • Imhotep@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    (Linux)

    Add the same symbol at the beginning of most aliases. I use é

    So when I type é+tab I get all my aliases

    é+first letters of alias+tab and I’m sure autocomplete will select the alias and not another command

  • Mr. Satan@lemmy.zip
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    21 days ago

    Ok, windows “hacks” I use at work.

    There’s a setting in windows that opens snipping tool when print screen is pressed. This allows to select a screen, window or a rectangle. More than that, it also has screen recording functionality. Very good for quick screen grabs with no additional software required.

    Useful for multilinguals out there. Windows (and some linux distros) have an option to bind keyboard layout selection to open windows, meaning alt+tab’ing no longer requires switching between languages.

    EDIT:
    A phone thing. Some keyboards have whitespace and backspace drag functionality, that allows to move the cursor or highlight and delete text without blocking your view with your fat fingrers.

    ANOTHER EDIT:
    Having a mouse with at least two thumb buttons is a god send. Moving backwards and forwards between application pages is very useful.

    Also, for devs. Go through you IDE shortcut settings and configure (ctrl|shift|alt)+click shortcuts. Having mouse controls to navigate between declarations, usages and implementations of different code elements with intention is awesome.
    In the same vein: ctrl+(f|r) and ctrl+shift+(f|r) for find or replace in file or whole project respectively is really common use case.
    Have multicarret shortcuts that allow edits in multiple lines at once. Don’t forget to add shortcuts like alt+(up|down) to move selected lines up and down.
    Configure shortcuts for code folding like ctrl+numpad+ and ctlr+numpad- to expand and hide current block or combine with shift to manipulate the whole file.
    And for gods sake use home and end keys, combined with ctrl and shift it allows for efficient navigation and selection within a file. Combine it with multicarret support and ctrl+side_arrow_keys and you have a way to sync multiple carrets and efficiently edit multiple lines.

    Finnaly: f1 – help, f2 – rename, f5 – refresh / run, optionally with ctrl, f11 – fullscreen, f12 – devtools.

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      20 days ago

      There’s a setting in windows that opens snipping tool when print screen is pressed. This allows to select a screen, window or a rectangle. More than that, it also has screen recording functionality. Very good for quick screen grabs with no additional software required.

      Win+Shift+S is the keyboard shortcut. You can even do screen recordings. I use that shit all the time at work, to send bug reports when the useless fucking software we’re forced to use has a repeatable crash that the dev team can’t replicate with text reports alone.

      • Mr. Satan@lemmy.zip
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        20 days ago

        From my experience win+shift+s take a screen shot of all the screens. Print screen opens this small snipping tool widget at the top that gives me more control. Now the behavior might have changed since I’ve found it, windows 11 wasn’t a thing back then and snipping tool got some updates in recent years.

  • Randomocity@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    21 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.

  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    20 days ago

    My grub boot loader is pretty hacked together at this point. Really should probably do a fresh install at some point. Want to get a 4TB SSD at some point though.

  • N00b22@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    21 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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    21 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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    21 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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    21 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.

  • Drekaridill@feddit.is
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    21 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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      21 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.

  • TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    21 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

  • JamonBear@sh.itjust.works
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    21 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…

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      21 days ago

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

    • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      21 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.