@jordanlund@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 6 months agoMicrosoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square531fedilinkarrow-up1587arrow-down151file-textcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.orguiux@programming.devtechnology@lemmy.worldpcmasterrace@lemmit.onlinetechnology@lemmy.zipmicrosoft@lemdro.id
arrow-up1536arrow-down1external-linkMicrosoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994arstechnica.com@jordanlund@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 6 months agomessage-square531fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.orguiux@programming.devtechnology@lemmy.worldpcmasterrace@lemmit.onlinetechnology@lemmy.zipmicrosoft@lemdro.id
minus-squarelemmyvorelinkfedilinkEnglish6•edit-26 months agoSometimes a key gets bound in all regular modifiers so you really need another one. For example I use Super+F for fullscreen because Ctrl+F, Alt+F and Ctrl+Alt+F are all taken in this or that program. Oh and btw the right-hand Alt is usually AltGr not regular Alt for non-English countries, it’s used for composing diacritics.
minus-square@kux@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-26 months ago non-English countries Pedantic point but of the major English QWERTY layouts, US has two Alts, UK has AltGr on the right
minus-squarelemmyvorelinkfedilinkEnglish1•6 months agoIt doesn’t matter what it says on the key, it gets mapped to AltGr so it can’t be used as Alt.
Sometimes a key gets bound in all regular modifiers so you really need another one.
For example I use Super+F for fullscreen because Ctrl+F, Alt+F and Ctrl+Alt+F are all taken in this or that program.
Oh and btw the right-hand Alt is usually AltGr not regular Alt for non-English countries, it’s used for composing diacritics.
Pedantic point but of the major English QWERTY layouts, US has two Alts, UK has AltGr on the right
It doesn’t matter what it says on the key, it gets mapped to AltGr so it can’t be used as Alt.