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How to type the Euro Symbol € on US English keyboard in Windows 10 without a numpad or "AltGr" key?
Yes there is!
You can find all kinds of symbols, including the euro symbol, on the Emoji picker.
Go to where you want to enter the symbol
Hit WIN+. or WIN+; on your keyboard
Navigate to the Symbols ...
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How to type the Euro Symbol € on US English keyboard in Windows 10 without a numpad or "AltGr" key?
Looking for a picture of an HP ProBook 430 which showed a keyboard large enough to read the keys well, I found this image:
It shows an Fn key between the Ctrl key (actually called Strg in this ...
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Disabling everything except letters in browser- and on OS-level
Remove all the 'illegal' key-caps & mount the keyboard behind a cutout so only allowed keys are exposed.
No 'illegal' keys available to press, no need to do anything special to the OS. You keep ...
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Does USB version speed matter for input devices?
If you don't notice a difference, it might not really matter. You can test your input delay by plugging in the mouse directly and measuring the polling rate. Then measure again through the hub.
Look ...
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How to type the Euro Symbol € on US English keyboard in Windows 10 without a numpad or "AltGr" key?
I use AutoHotKey for this. You can use it for endless customisation but I started using it mainly to get the € and £ symbols on a US keyboard.
https://www.autohotkey.com/
Just create a script with ...
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Disabling everything except letters in browser- and on OS-level
What you're looking for is called "kiosk".
Depending on your budget you could buy or rent a dedicated machine. They are called "interactive kiosk" or "kiosk computer". ...
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How to type the Euro Symbol € on US English keyboard in Windows 10 without a numpad or "AltGr" key?
Have you tried activating the international English keyboard layout?
It's AltGr+5 on this keyboard:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/globalization/windows-keyboard-layouts#
select "United States-...
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Wayland alternative for xorg's xdotool?
There's currently no perfect solution, but there's a close one: ydotool.
It uses the uinput interface as backend, and has no dependency on display servers.
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How to type the Euro Symbol € on US English keyboard in Windows 10 without a numpad or "AltGr" key?
Win+R (Run) and then enter charmap and enter.
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Disabling everything except letters in browser- and on OS-level
If it fits in your budget you could also consider using a touchscreen and developing a simple JS keyboard
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Disabling everything except letters in browser- and on OS-level
I've done something like this in order to use a USB number-pad as a custom control input for a piece of software.
Basically, rather then dealing with OS protections or other options, open the "...
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Wayland alternative for xorg's xdotool?
There's now another option for xdotool like functioality on Wayland, the wtype tool.
More details on the Wayland protocol used by wtype can be found in this blog post.
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Can't enter unicode character with Alt+ even with EnableHexNumpad
To improve discoverability, I'm going to copy JosefZ's comment from more than a year ago into an answer:
With this registry settings: what happens if you type e.g. +03b1 while holding the Alt key? ...
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How to type the Euro Symbol € on US English keyboard in Windows 10 without a numpad or "AltGr" key?
Someone else suggested autohotkey, but I think it's worth mentioning the excellent WinCompose project, that gives you full compose-key functionality (e.g. I can type compose+c+= or compose-e++ to get €...
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How to get the Windows 11 emoji panel to automatically close after typing one emoji?
If you go on typing, the emoji keyboard closes by itself.
I found this out accidentally but I now use this as a practical workaround.
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spectrum analyzer that shows 'live' input from the microphone
Just found this one:
http://friture.org/
Testing it now.
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Does USB version speed matter for input devices?
I expect the cost to be minimal. USB 1.1 was fairly widely popular, and wasn't considered slow for such devices. (It was just too slow for certain other types of devices.)
In many cases, all you ...
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Disabling everything except letters in browser- and on OS-level
You could use the Linux DRM API to draw directly to the screen using e.g. libcairo (Which has font-rendering support), intercept input events with libinput, and disable all vttys. Probably overkill, ...
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Disabling everything except letters in browser- and on OS-level
This could be a good use case for one of the embedded versions of Windows.
Windows 10 IoT Core is a stripped-down, minimalistic build of Windows that only allows a single, pre-defined UWP program to ...
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Excel - Can one move the text-cursor in a range-input field using the keyboard?
Similar question here:
Scroll to the right in excel formula entry field
Answer: while in the entry field, press F2; an indicator on the bottom left of Excel will change from "Enter" to "Edit". You'll ...
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Does USB version speed matter for input devices?
The additional delay from a USB hub is of order of tens of microseconds for low-speed hubs and under one microsecond for high speed hubs. Humans don't notice delays less than 100 milliseconds, and in ...
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How to type the Euro Symbol € on US English keyboard in Windows 10 without a numpad or "AltGr" key?
Depending on your keyboard layout, there might be an AltGr key on the on-screen keyboard. Type osk into the search box on the taskbar and then choose "On-Screen Keyboard" from the choices that appear.
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How to get the Windows 11 emoji panel to automatically close after typing one emoji?
TLDR; There is no elegant workaround for this as of now.
It is worth mentioning that the registry key for enabling/disabling this functionality is still available - however, it is sadly not ...
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Do other OS's support ALT-codes?
Alt-code is Windows specific. Other OSes have various ways to input Unicode characters.
On macOS 8.5 and later you hold ⌥ Option then type the 4-digit hex value. Characters outside the BMP can be ...
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Entering Unicode characters by name
You can try uniqoda. It has a search box where you can type the character you are looking for by name. Last updated in January 2022.
Or try All the Unicode can be installed from Microsoft Store. Last ...
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How do I enter I/O ports during TempleOS boot?
You mention in a comment that you are using "a built in laptop keyboard and other USB keyboards".
In an article entitled "Why Not More", it is stated:
Adding a USB driver would be really ugly with ...
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Input corrupted on Windows 10 after 1083 update: ASCII chars are replaced with �
The cause was in the setting that I set some day. Specifically, “Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support”.
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use android or PC as keyboard output for RPI3
From the documentation, found via googling:
For headless setup, SSH can be enabled by placing a file named ssh, without any extension, onto the boot partition of the SD card from another computer. ...
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Multiple input languages, switch between two
I solved this problem using AutoHotKey.
Set up 3 languages, a hotkey for switching between them and another hotkey for switching to the language you want to skip. I had English, Russian and Japanese ...
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Ls and input redirection
it seems to ignore the input stream
Yes. The ls program never uses the input stream, because it wasn't written to read anything from the input stream. This is not something that comes automatically ...
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