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Key | Key | Action | Action |
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Break | Cancel an action (e.g. stop printing a file) | ||
Alt-Break | Brings up the application termination dialogue | ||
Ctrl-Break | Reboot | ||
Shift-Break | Reboot to command line |
You can generate any character on the keyboard (and quite a few that aren’t on the keyboard) by holding down the Alt key and typing the character code on the numeric keypad. For example, Alt-163 would produce a £ symbol with the Latin1 alphabet.
Some special characters can also be produced by pressing Alt and a letter key. The following shortcuts are available with the Latin1 alphabet:
Key | Key | Alt character | Shift-Alt character | |
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1 | 1 superscript | Inverted exclamation mark | ||
2 | 2 superscript | |||
3 | 3 superscript | Currency symbol | ||
4 | Euro symbol | |||
5 | Permil symbol | |||
7 | One-quarter symbol | |||
8 | One-half symbol | Bullet point | ||
9 | Three-quarters symbol | Plus-minus symbol | ||
A | Lower-case ae ligature | Upper-case AE ligature | ||
B | Close single quotes | Close double quotes | ||
C | Cent symbol | Copyright symbol | ||
D | Lower-case eth (Icelandic) | Upper-case eth (Icelandic) | ||
F | Feminine ordinal symbol | |||
I | Lower-case fi ligature | Upper-case FI ligature | ||
L | Lower-case fl ligature | Upper-case FL ligature | ||
M | Mu (Greek) | Masculine ordinal symbol | ||
N | Lower right double quote | |||
O | Lower-case o with diagonal line | Upper-case O with diagonal line | ||
P | Lower-case thorn (Icelandic) | Upper-case thorn (Icelandic) | ||
Q | Lower-case oe ligature | Upper-case OE ligature | ||
R | Pilcrow | Registered trade mark symbol | ||
S | Eszett (German) | Section sign | ||
T | Trade mark symbol | |||
V | Open single quotes | Open double quotes | ||
X | Close double angle quote | Close single angle quote | ||
Y | Yen symbol | |||
Z | Open double angle quote | Open single angle quote | ||
` | Broken vertical bar | Degree symbol | ||
- | Soft hyphen | Minus sign | ||
= | En-rule | Em-dash | ||
; | (accents – see below) | Ellipsis | ||
# | Dagger symbol | Double dagger symbol | ||
\ | Interpunct (middle dot) | |||
, | (accents – see below) | Multiplication symbol | ||
. | (accents – see below) | Division symbol | ||
/ | (accents – see below) | Inverted question mark | ||
space | Non-breaking space |
Accented letters can be generated by pressing Alt and one of the characters [ ] ; ’ , . / followed by the letter you want the accent applied to. The following shortcuts are available with the Latin1 alphabet:
Key combination | Key combination | Accent | Accent | Characters affected | Characters affected |
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Alt [ | aeiouy | Acute | aeiouy | ||
Alt ] | aeiou | Grave | aeiou | ||
Alt ; | aeiouy | Diaeresis (Umlaut) | aeiouy | ||
Alt ’ | aeiouwy | Circumflex | aeiouwy | ||
Alt , | ao | Tilde | ao | ||
Alt . | a | Overring | a | ||
Alt / | c | Cedilla | c |
Key | Key | Action | Action |
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F12 | Suspend desktop and access the command line | ||
Shift-F12 | Bring icon bar to front/back of window stack | ||
Ctrl-F12 | Open a Task Window | ||
Shift-Ctrl-F12 | Shut down the machine |
Key | Key | Action | Action |
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F1 | Help | ||
F2 | Load file | ||
Shift-F2 | Insert file | ||
Ctrl-F2 | Close current window | ||
F3 | Save file | ||
F4 | Find / Search and replace | ||
F5 | Go to (line) | ||
F8 | Undo | ||
F9 | Redo | ||
Ctrl-A | Select all | ||
Ctrl-C | Copy selection to clipboard | ||
Ctrl-K | Delete selection without affecting the clipboard | ||
Ctrl-U | Delete current line1 / Erase text from input field | ||
Ctrl-V | Paste selection from clipboard | ||
Ctrl-X | Cut selection to clipboard | ||
Ctrl-Z | Clear selection | ||
Ctrl-End | Delete current line |
1 Some applications use Ctrl-End Ctrl-U to delete the current line.
Key | Key | Action | Action |
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Return | Open/run selection | ||
Backspace | Open parent directory | ||
Ctrl-A | Select All | ||
Ctrl-F | Cycle display format | ||
Ctrl-R | Rename | ||
Ctrl-S | |||
Ctrl-U | Cycle sort order | ||
Ctrl-W | Erase text from input field | ||
Ctrl-Z | Set current directory | ||
Ctrl-K | Clear selection | ||
Tab | Delete selection | ||
Shift-Tab | Switch to next filer window | ||
Ctrl-F2 | Switch to previous filer window | ||
Escape | Close window | ||
Escape | Cancel operation (e.g. dismiss a menu) |
Key | Key | Action | Action |
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Ctrl-Q | Zoom out | ||
Ctrl-W | Zoom in | ||
Ctrl-R | Reload current page | ||
Ctrl-S | Save current page | ||
Ctrl-F | Search on current page | ||
Ctrl-N | Open a new window | ||
F2 | Enter a new URL | ||
Ctrl-U | Clear current content of URL input bar while it has focus |
Three keys on the bottom row of the keyboard (the two “flag” keys and the “menu” key) can be configured to perform predetermined actions. This is done via Configure > Keyboard which allows you to assign a command to each of the keys. For example, you can set a key to open a directory or run an application by dragging the appropriate icon to the input field on the Keyboard configuration window.
Key | Mouse button | Action | Action |
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Select | Choose item / Perform action | ||
Adjust | Alter selection / Perform alternative action | ||
Menu | Display context-sensitive menu |
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Toggle size |
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Scroll arrow |
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Scrollbar well |
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Scrollbar slider |
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Resize |
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Mouse button | Action |
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Select | Choose item |
Adjust | Alter selection (add/remove item) |
Select-drag | Choose group of items |
Adjust-drag | Alter selection of group of items |
Double-clicking Select | Run/open item |
Double-clicking Adjust | Run/open item and close current Filer window |
Shift + double-click (file icon) | Load any file into default editor (usually !Edit) |
Double-click and hold2 (file icon) | |
Shift + double-click (application icon) | Open application directory |
Double-click and hold2 (application icon) | |
Control + double-click (directory icon) | Open directory but do not run internal files of applications in that directory |
2 “Double-click and hold” needs to be enabled on via theConfiguration > Filer . window.