Signo is a flexible hotkey manager from the developer of Minimem. It comes with a huge range of predefined hotkeys with the option to add custom hotkeys or to edit or delete existing ones. The hotkeys are divided into different categories that make it easier to manage the different subsets. Categories include computer memory, text, [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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Create custom desktop shortcuts in Ubuntu
Do you need your operating system to be as efficient as possible? Do you hate having to go back and forth between the mouse and the keyboard? Would you rather have a keyboard shortcut for everything? If this is you then you are in luck. Linux desktops tend to be the most configurable of all [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Computer Keyboard Tweaker
Computer Keyboard Tweaker is a very lightweight computer program to manage keyboard shortcuts. It offers various configuration possibilities and uses roughly one Megabyte while running in the background. It provides access to several features only known from multimedia keyboards. This includes changing the speaker volume, launching executables from the local hard drive, opening the default [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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Handy GNOME Keyboard Shortcuts
Are you like me and one of those users who HATES going back and forth from keyboard to mouse? Such a waste of precious time that back and forth movement. To be a seriously efficient Linux user it’s best to know keyboard shortcuts for the desktop environment (or window manager) that you use. In this [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Add New Keyboard Shortcuts
It’s rather strange that Windows does not ship with an easy way to configure keyboard shortcuts in the system. Enter HoeKey. A lightweight portable software that can be used to configure various advanced keyboard shortcuts. Keyboard shortcuts can be edited and added to the computer system by editing a ini file that contains all the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Create Shortcuts With Advanced Shortcuts Composer
Creating Shortcuts in Windows is not really that complicated. A right-click on a folder or file provides access to the create shortcut menu and there is also the option to drag and drop files or folders to another path which will create a shortcut when the CTRL key is pressed during the operation. The software [...]
- Author: Cheryl
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Control Windows Media Center with Keyboard Shortcuts
For those people who use Windows Media Center, it can be a pain to have to navigate around the program using the mouse, especially if you’re watching a movie and you need to access a particular feature. What many users don’t know or realize is that Windows Media Center has a whole lot of keyboard [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Set Global Shortcuts in Windows
You might remember that I was looking for a program to set global shortcuts to reserved keys like F1-F12. Winlauch is a program that can set global shortcuts and comes very close to fulfilling my wish. But let me start at the beginning. It’s relatively easy to set specific shortcuts in Windows that are recognized [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Freesnap: Resize Windows with the keyboard
Freesnap (via Freeware Genius) is a innovative software that adds the functionality to resize windows with the keyboard to Windows. The main functionality is provided by the Windows key and the arrow keys or numeric pad keys. Pressing the Windows key and one of the four arrow keys (or the 2,4,6,8 numpad keys) snaps the [...]