Just found the Emoji/GIF keyboard in Windows....🤦♂️
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!
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
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.
I actually learned this one working at an IT help desk. It's the main way to fix the "I can't find this window" problem when people throw an application screen entirely off monitor or it's just poking out by 1 pixel and they can't find it.
Hit that shortcut and it snaps to one of the screens and you can go from there!
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
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.
If I type :hand then [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
😲 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.
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
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
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.