If you have "Help" instead of "Ins", replace it with Overgod-tier. Keep pressing it, it will come.
OC, feel free to share.
EDIT; Home is now G-od tier. I didn't know it would go to the beginning of a line, I always used macros "lol".
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No one's gonna throw shade at the ≣ key? Aka the Menu Key?
It's next to useless. It's almost always used to open the right-click menu, which is specifically for GUIs and based on the mouse position... so why not just right-click? What silly person is using their mouse except to bring up the context menu?
I'd say the same about the Super Key (❖) Aka The Windows Key, but I got i3wm on my laptop and I am loving having a GUI without needing to use my mortal enemy: the Trackpad. Plus it's a minor time-save above moving windows/clicking menus with the mouse; still doesn't apply to Menu when your finger's already hovering over the RMB.
Super/Windows key isn't useless... It gives you another modifier key. Since apps don't really use it, you can use it for global shortcuts without the risk of collisions with shortcut keys that individual apps support like you would with Ctrl, Alt and Shift.
Something that I have come to appreciate about MacOS. The ctrl modifier is completely free from the OS so, I don't have to worry about terminal commands causing unexpected side effects.
I absolutely love being able to command+c and command+v in my terminals.
I have to disagree with the Windows key being useless. Win+Shift+S for selective screen grab to clipboard. Win+E to open a new Explorer window. Win+D to show the desktop. They were my go-tos. Now I'm forced to use Mac I use the Win key all the time too, Win+C, Win+V....
I use it to open the spell checker options while I'm typing. It's annoying to have to switch from keyboard to mouse. My current laptop doesn't have the key and I even added another short key.
The super key, again, is useful so you don't have to switch between keyboard and mouse when searching for an app. It is also the modifier for all GUI shortcuts.
I use the menu key in my terminal emulator to paste from the clipboard. Just Menu -> P. There's probably a shortcut, but this works.
Very nice! Jsyk, you can also use Shift + Ctrl + V for the one handed paste (likewise Shift + Ctrl + C to copy), or Shift + Insert (and Ctrl + Insert to copy) works too. If you're on Windows, right clicking in CMD/Powershell pastes, Enter copies anything highlighted, and Ctrl + V work as usual... Ctrl + C copies too, except when a command/script is actively running, in which case it sends the halt signal, so use it at your own risk.
I usually stick to the Ctrl + Shift shortcuts, but it messes me up when I'm trying to copy from firefox into my terminal and I accidentally bring up the devtools instead
TIL, works in xfce4-terminal, thank you!
According to the ancient list of standard keyboard shortcuts (generally made famous by Microsoft, but used elsewhere before and after), the context menu was Shift+F10 anyway. Plain F10 being the main menu. A context menu key wasn't really needed.
Even the Windows key had the alternative binding Ctrl+Esc for those people who had old keyboards. That's why Ctrl+Shift+Esc called up Task Manager. Related meanings and all that. Arguably though, the Windows key being associated with the space-cadet keyboard's Super functionality was a stroke of genius on the part of Linux adopters. It's also why Alt is often called "Meta".
I'm surprised the context menu key hasn't been called and used as "Hyper", but then there is only one on a modern PC keyboard. There's two of all the others.
(Given the precedent, Alt+F10 ought to be the window manager's "title bar" menu, but the Alt+F# shortcuts are a separate, older, family. Most aren't implemented by default these days, but the famous don't press it without thinking Alt+F4 to close the window is part of it. Alt+Space is what's used instead for the aforementioned menu.)
It's so useless that Microsoft recently announced it's going to replace it with a button for their stupid AI bullshit Copilot