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Just found the Emoji/GIF keyboard in Windows....🤦‍♂️ (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by Rekorse@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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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?

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[-] Bucket_of_Truth@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Opteryx@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

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!

[-] LChitman@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, I've been using this for a while on my work computer with win11, neat little feature.

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[-] pain_is_life_is_pain@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

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!

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[-] Yutopianist@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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!

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[-] IllNess@infosec.pub 11 points 1 year ago

Um... thanks, I've going to Emojipedia and copy and pasting from there. 🤦‍♂️

[-] Rekorse@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Hey no one ever said having an alternate way to do something is a bad thing! Redundancy is good! Thank you for the tip!

[-] IllNess@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] dan@upvote.au 9 points 1 year ago

In case you didn't notice, you can immediately start typing as soon as you press that keyboard shortcut (Windows and .) to search through the Emoji.

[-] Rekorse@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you I didn't notice that yet! Immediately reminds me of how the start menu works with the built in search bar.

I shoulda known I was going to get a bunch of good tips back from posting this! 😆

[-] techno156@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

It's also accessible with <WinKey> + ;. Not quite sure why Windows has multiple shortcuts for the same menu, but there we are.

[-] Rekorse@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Lol it's right next to the original shortcut too, maybe in case we fat finger it!

[-] Helix@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Works in KDE on Linux aswell.

[-] lodion@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] variouslegumes@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago

On Android (maybe iOS)? You can hold down on the space key and drag left and right to move the text cursor. Very useful.

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[-] hybridhavoc@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Win + Shift + Left / Right Arrow will shift a window from one monitor to the other. Should have known that keyboard shortcut a lot longer than I have.

[-] Rekorse@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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!

[-] hybridhavoc@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's quickly become one of my most frequently used keyboard shortcuts, and I've used it for exactly that purpose as well.

[-] simonced@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] eddythompson@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

How is it hard to use? It’s just a list of emojis by type with a search box like any phone.

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[-] IllNess@infosec.pub 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] ryan@the.coolest.zone 5 points 1 year ago

😲 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.)

[-] Rekorse@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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?

[-] ryan@the.coolest.zone 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] ZapBeebz@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Rekorse@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Honestly, an emoji button should probably make its way into the standard keyboard layout very soon with how prevalent it's use had become

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[-] brie@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] FabulousCable3945@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

thanks to emoji keyboard, I found the clipboard history in windows and made the searching of history easier

[-] Opteryx@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Win+V is one of the most powerful functionalities in any operating system IMHO. I use it every day.

[-] Rekorse@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] artillect@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Win+V opens up your clipboard history so you don't have to switch tabs in the emoji picker

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[-] JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Novemberwind@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Works on German locale here out of the box now. (Win 10)

But I also learned about this feature pretty recently.

[-] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Super strange that something like this would be language specific, considering it's all Unicode characters behind the scenes, the emojis anyway yeah?

[-] clb92@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Has worked for a long time in my Danish version of Windows 10.

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[-] Shiroa@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Not something I should have known, but if you want to continue using phone features on Windows Windows+H opens up the speech2text feature.

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[-] Otome-chan@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Rekorse@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] SevenSwell@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Wow TIL! Will save a lot of copying and pasting in the future lol.

[-] xchino@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Works in KDE Plasma too!

[-] at_an_angle@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Who put the Denko emojis in there?

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[-] RealM@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

🦥

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