Digital literacy

some WP: Digital_literacy

General

• Logo key pressed once often brings up an applications menu
• Ubuntu: holding the logo key gives a leopard shortcut display

• Ctrl and then tab switches to the next window
• Ctrl and shift then tab switches to the next window

• Alt is usually for selecting a programmes menu
• Windows: To move a window (e.g. that is off the visible screen) - alt then space then m then one press of any arrow key then move the mouse

Copy and paste

• Selecting any text and pressing Ctrl-x, to cut (if possible) Ctrl-v, to paste, Ctrl-c to copy text. These are also usually available in a right click or edit dialogue menu

• Selecting any text in Linux copies it and scroll-wheel middle click pastes it, separate to the Ctrl-c Ctrl-v clipboard* This means triple clicking a web site paragraph copies it to the middle click paste clipboard* Or sometimes just double clicking if you hit the right spot

Browsing

• Middle click a web link to open it in a new tab
• Middle click a tab to close it
• On some laptops with two buttons, clicking in the 'middle' of the buttons does a middle click

• Alt then left or right arrows to move backward and forward through a tabs page history

• Mouse wheel up and down on the tab bar to move left and right between tabs
• Ctrl then Page Up or Page Down to move left or right between browser tabs* Ctrl and Shift then Page Up or Page Down moves tabs left or right

• Right click on tabs and Pin keep a site or page available, or for a 'deal with later' group

• Ctrl and F4 to close a tab
• Ctrl then y repoens the last closed tab
• Chrome: with the web inspector open, right clicking on reload gives extra options

• F6 moves the cursor to and selects (copies) the address bar

• Space scrolls a page down, shift-space scrolls a page up

• Shift-Enter with the Find box selected searches backwards

For hardcore:

• Chrome: Vimium

• Firefox: vimfx / vimperator

Video

• https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/html5-video-speed-control/ejdipbccipeloijefbkiakckfhdbgocg?utm_source=chrome-app-launcher-info-dialog

Editing

• Ctrl then Left or Right jumps backwards or forwards a word

• Ctrl, Shift then Left or Right to select a word backwards or forwards* Ctrl, Shift then Up or Down to select whole lines

• Don't forget your home and end keys, and Delete for removing back the way when required* Click anywhere in a line then press Home, hold shift, hit Down (or End to keep the line-break) then Delete to remove a line and its linebreak

• In browsers: Ctrl then y undoes
• In apps: Ctrl then z undoes