Digital literacy

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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

Browsing

  • 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
  • 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

For hardcore;

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