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Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 (arstechnica.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards, though not yet.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well, that is one advantage, that it's somewhat easier to remember Super+P than Ctrl+Alt+P.

But of course, it's also just a key which likely won't conflict with keyboard shortcuts used in applications. By convention, Super is only used for OS-level shortcuts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

If the Windows key didn't exist, Ctrl Alt would work just as well and wouldn't require anything else to remember because all OS level shortcuts would be Ctrl Alt shortcuts that wouldn't conflict with any applications.

Using Ctrl Alt would also be faster and more accessible because they are on the right and left instead of the current Super key (Windows) being only on the left.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Sometimes a key gets bound in all regular modifiers so you really need another one.

For example I use Super+F for fullscreen because Ctrl+F, Alt+F and Ctrl+Alt+F are all taken in this or that program.

Oh and btw the right-hand Alt is usually AltGr not regular Alt for non-English countries, it's used for composing diacritics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

non-English countries

Pedantic point but of the major English QWERTY layouts, US has two Alts, UK has AltGr on the right

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It doesn't matter what it says on the key, it gets mapped to AltGr so it can't be used as Alt.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

the current Super key (Windows) being only on the left.

i have a keyboard that has the super key on both sides, next to alt gr