Questions tagged [typing]
Skill of writing by use of a keyboard.
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I need to hammer a few last nails on my typing productivity solving the problems that I am facing with keyd. Can you help me out?
So the problems with keyd that need to be address so that I can have my peak typing efficiency are:
Enabling context menu key as right super when pressed and as normal context menu key when clicked. ...
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Enable typing in Windows text fields?
I can't type (i.e. nothing happens) in these Windows text fields like the Search field:
I know this is because I once have turned off a service or something that is necessary for it, but I don't ...
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How do I turn off auto-accent in a foreign keyboard (brazilian portuguese)? [duplicate]
I want to turn off auto-accent (a.k.a.: automatic diacritics) from my brazilian Portuguese keyboard. Is that possible?
I have only found posts saying that to do that I need to enable the "US"...
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How can I make the cursor in VS Code use the arrow keys in the same way as vim?
Specifically, I want it in VS Code so that when I move the arrow key to the right at the end of a line of text it just stops in place instead of jumping to the beginning of the next line. I find this ...
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Disable letter key+SPACE for diacritics in Windows
I've been accidentally getting diacritics (accents, etc) on my letters as I type, and I've realized what's happened is that in Windows, if you press SPACE while a letter key is down, you get a menu ...
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Microsoft Word 365 problems
Word 365
Can you turn off the capslock so that you dont have the problem of typing a word in Word 365 that has a capital letter in the middle of it rather than an 'a'? this seems to happen to me a ...
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keyboard sometimes doesnt type, sometimes types twice
i'm having a weird problem on windows 10 where the keyboard has a bit of delay when typing, and sometimes doesnt work and sometimes it types twice in a row. This happens for all keys and on safe mode ...
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My optical keyboard SK61 sometimes doesn't even see my click
Sometimes when I alternately use two keys on my SK61 keyboard with Gateron red switches this happen:
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I play perfectly, but the keyboard thinks that I hold down one key and ...
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Strange typing issues Windows 11
I've recently upgraded Windows 10 to Windows 11 on my desktop, but the problem I'm going to describe did not occur until a couple of days ago some time after upgrade. My system is fully updated.
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Typing by pressing three keys on keyboard
I've been experimenting with verious typing techniques and I've just noticed that when I press three keys simultaneously then nothing happens. By simultaneously I really mean in quick succession but ...
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Change Timeout/Duration for Automatic Text Replacement of Text Expansion Shortcuts in Chrome on M1 Mac
I just picked up a new M1 MacBook Air with Big Sur, and I imported all of my text expansions (found in system preferences > keyboard > text). I installed the version of Chrome designed for Apple ...
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When I type ;t it is replaced with 't;t on Apple devices
There is some sort of typing assist feature on my Apple products that substitutes a correction that is itself incorrect and it's been around for a decade or more and I've been living with it for all ...
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Windows emits an "error" sound when using the EurKEY keyboard layout
OS: Windows 10 20H2
Language setup:
English (United States)
US (QWERTY)
English (Germany)
EurKEY Keyboard Layout by Steffen Brüntjen
Example: Clicking on the Search box in File Explorer = Error ...
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Making key repeat behavior consistent across Windows and UNIX operating systems
I split my time between Linux, macOS, and Windows about evenly. This is because there is software that is unique on all 3 systems that I need to use regularly between work and leisure.
Lately I have ...
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Editing text outside of certain apps
When i edit text outside of websites and browsers, instead of seeing the regular black line in front of the last letter, i see a big black block that spills over to following characters and makes them ...
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