Never do this.
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WINKEY + + I.e. WINKEY and numeric keypad "+" It's "Zoom in" on magnifier, and while in theory WINKEY + - should zoom out it doesn't work on my three-monitor setup. One of my apps uses ALT + + to add "must include" filters, ALT + - to add "must not include" filters. ALT is disturbingly close to WINKEY ... and it took me five or more minutes to work out what had happened and discover WINKEY + ESC to close magnifier ... :sigh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
With certain Intel graphics drivers, ctrl-alt- rotates the display. Great for a drive-by on some unsuspecting colleague. ctrl-alt- restores the orientation at least, but windows often need to be repositioned and resized. I don't remember exactly what happens in a multi-monitor world, but I suspect it's pretty messy.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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WINKEY + + I.e. WINKEY and numeric keypad "+" It's "Zoom in" on magnifier, and while in theory WINKEY + - should zoom out it doesn't work on my three-monitor setup. One of my apps uses ALT + + to add "must include" filters, ALT + - to add "must not include" filters. ALT is disturbingly close to WINKEY ... and it took me five or more minutes to work out what had happened and discover WINKEY + ESC to close magnifier ... :sigh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
Also dangerous: Ctrl + mousewheel, I hit this accidentally once and it took me quite a while before I found out why my desktop icons had become so large.
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Also dangerous: Ctrl + mousewheel, I hit this accidentally once and it took me quite a while before I found out why my desktop icons had become so large.
I use this one quite a lot - it's really handy.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I use this one quite a lot - it's really handy.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
I do, too. The obvious use is to enlarge text that are much too small, especially when I'm sitting in my recliner with the screen at much lager distance than normal reading. Also when searching for e.g. a specific chapter that I don't remember the exact title, so an ordinary search works poorly. Then I reduce the size so that only the headlines are large enough to be readable. Or I am searching for a specific photo or illustration; they are usually recognizable at much reduced sizes. If the software tool allows display of an entire matrix of several columns of several rows of page thumbnails (or next to that, if I need to read chapter headings), it helps me a lot to find what I want in large documents. Ctrl-wheel is a very quick, very handy way of zooming in for detail, zooming out for overview. I love it.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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WINKEY + + I.e. WINKEY and numeric keypad "+" It's "Zoom in" on magnifier, and while in theory WINKEY + - should zoom out it doesn't work on my three-monitor setup. One of my apps uses ALT + + to add "must include" filters, ALT + - to add "must not include" filters. ALT is disturbingly close to WINKEY ... and it took me five or more minutes to work out what had happened and discover WINKEY + ESC to close magnifier ... :sigh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Also dangerous: Ctrl + mousewheel, I hit this accidentally once and it took me quite a while before I found out why my desktop icons had become so large.
Super useful while in the testing stage of a program while you are alone and need to move across the installation to see how sensors and different feedback signals react at real time. But, yes, the first time can be like... "WTF happened here?!" :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
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WINKEY + + I.e. WINKEY and numeric keypad "+" It's "Zoom in" on magnifier, and while in theory WINKEY + - should zoom out it doesn't work on my three-monitor setup. One of my apps uses ALT + + to add "must include" filters, ALT + - to add "must not include" filters. ALT is disturbingly close to WINKEY ... and it took me five or more minutes to work out what had happened and discover WINKEY + ESC to close magnifier ... :sigh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
Super useful while in the testing stage of a program while you are alone and need to move across the installation to see how sensors and different feedback signals react at real time. But, yes, the first time can be like... "WTF happened here?!" :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
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My (primary) keyboard doesn't have Win keys.
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So it usually loses. (I'll get my coat)
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?" -- Rigoletto
"The only way to win is not to play." -- WOPR
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I use this one quite a lot - it's really handy.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
