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Desktop interaction quick reference

category: Help

Keyboard

BREAK key functions

Key	Action
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

ALT key functions

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	Alt character	Shift-Alt character
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	Accent	Characters affected
Alt [	Acute	aeiouy
Alt ]	Grave	aeiou
Alt ;	Diaeresis (Umlaut)	aeiouy
Alt ’	Circumflex	aeiouwy
Alt ,	Tilde	ao
Alt .	Overring	a
Alt /	Cedilla	c

Keyboard shortcuts – Desktop

Key	Action
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

Keyboard shortcuts – Applications

Key	Action
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	Erase text from input field¹
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-U to delete the current line.

Keyboard shortcuts – Filer

Key	Action
Return	Open/run selection
Backspace	Open parent directory
Ctrl-A	Select All
Ctrl-F	Cycle display format
Ctrl-R	Rename
Ctrl-S	Cycle sort order
Ctrl-U	Erase text from input field
Ctrl-W	Set current directory
Ctrl-Z	Clear selection
Ctrl-K	Delete selection
Tab	Switch to next filer window
Shift-Tab	Switch to previous filer window
Ctrl-F2	Close window
Escape	Cancel operation (e.g. dismiss a menu)

Keyboard shortcuts – NetSurf

Key	Action
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

Macro keys

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.

Mouse

General

Key	Action
Select	Choose item / Perform action
Adjust	Alter selection / Perform alternative action
Menu	Display context-sensitive menu

Window interactions

Icon

Name

Functions

Back

Select-click	Push to back
Adjust-click	Pull to front
Shift-Select-click	Push back by one window
Shift-Adjust-click	Pull forward by one window

Select-click	Close window
Adjust-click	Close window and open/front parent
Shift-Select-click	Iconise the window
Shift-Adjust-click	Open/front parent window
Ctrl-Alt-Select-click	Close all windows (except those that have unsaved data)

Title bar

Select-click	Pull to front
Select-drag	Pull to front and move window
Adjust-drag	Move window without changing window order

Iconise

Select-click	Iconise the window
Adjust-click	Iconise the window (identical to Select-click)

Toggle size

Select-click	Toggle between full size and last size
Adjust-click	Toggle size without changing window order
Shift-Select-click	Toggle size without obscuring icon bar
Shift-Adjust-click	Toggle size without obscuring icon bar or changing window order

Scroll arrow

Select-click	Scroll in direction of arrow
Adjust-click	Scroll in opposite direction of arrow

Scrollbar well

Select-click	Scroll large amount (one page / window)
Adjust-click	Scroll large amount in opposite direction

Scrollbar slider

Select-drag	Scroll window in one axis
Adjust-drag	Scroll window up, down, left and right

Resize

Select-click	Pull to front
Select-drag	Pull to front and adjust size
Adjust-drag	Adjust size without changing window order

Filer interactions

Mouse button	Action
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)	Load any file into default editor (usually !Edit)
Shift + double-click (application icon)	Open application directory
Double-click and hold² (application icon)	Open application directory
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 via Configuration > Filer.

Icon bar interactions

Hovering the mouse at the very bottom of the screen will temporarily bring the icon bar to the front if it’s hidden behind other windows.
If there are too many icons on the icon bar for them to all fit on screen at once, hovering the mouse at either end of the icon bar will scroll it in the corresponding direction.
Dragging a file to a device icon will send it to that device.
Dragging a file to an application will open it in that application.
Dragging a file to an empty space on the icon bar has the same effect as double-clicking on the file (i.e. the file will be run/opened as appropriate).

Revised on September 8, 2020 08:09:53 by Stuart Painting (5389)? (2.27.47.205)

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