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Model Specific Forums => Cosmo Communicator => Cosmo Communicator - Android => Topic started by: vldmr on January 20, 2020, 10:34:57 am
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I feel that owners of android devices with physical keyboard need some reference for existing keyboard shortcuts in various common applications.
For example, I found that firefox does support some shortcuts common with desktop (space, shift-space, ctrl-W), but it drove me nuts that ctrl-L (keyboard focus to address bar for typing url) does not work. Then one time out of frustration I pressed ctrl and started to poke every key on keyboard - and what do you know, ctrl-T does focus in address bar (with side effect of opening new tab, which is fine).
So I thought until there will be some proper central place like some sort of wiki for this kind of knowledge sharing, I would start this thread for posting this kind of happy un-obvious findings about working shortcuts in various application.
I will be updating the first post with shortcuts published in the thread. Here we go:
Firefox mobile- space
show next page - shift-space
show previous page - ctrl-W
close current tab - ctrl-T
keyboard focus in address bar (opens new tab) - ctrl-F
find on page - ctrl-C/ctrl-V
copy/paste - shift-arrow keys
extend text selection. Also works for starting selection in input fields. In the rest of content selection has to be started by long press. - tab/shift-tab
jump to next/previous interactive element (link,input). Link can be activated by enter key.
Opera- Ctrl-tab
toggle through open windows (or open Private windows if the current dsiplay is InPrivate) - Ctrl-n
open a new window - Shift-ctrl-n
open a new private window
Open camera- space or enter
Take picture
Planet App Bar- Alt, then enter
Open launcher (for those, who've hidden navigation bar)
Termux- alt-1 through alt-0
F1 through F10 - alt-space
Escape. But better use actual escape key by setting back-key=escape in termux.properties as described here (https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Terminal_Settings).
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I feel that owners of android devices with physical keyboard need some reference for existing keyboard shortcuts in various common applications.
For example, I found that firefox does support some shortcuts common with desktop (space, shift-space, ctrl-W), but it drove me nuts that ctrl-L (keyboard focus to address bar for typing url) does not work. Then one time out of frustration I pressed ctrl and started to poke every key on keyboard - and what do you know, ctrl-T does focus in address bar (with side effect of opening new tab, which is fine).
So I thought until there will be some proper central place like some sort of wiki for this kind of knowledge sharing, I would start this thread for posting this kind of happy un-obvious findings about working shortcuts in various application. Here we go:
Firefox mobile- space
show next page - shift-space
show previous page - ctrl-W
close current tab - ctrl-T
keyboard focus in address bar (open new tab)
Open camera- space or enter
Take picture
Planet App Bar- Alt, then enter
Open launcher (for those, who've hidden navigation bar)
The Vivaldi browser seems to recognize more shortcuts than Opera or Firefox in Android... (Ctrl-L for instance works)
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Thanks vldmr - very useful! I'm also loving that the Ecs key goes back in Firefox...
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In Opera:
Ctrl-tab toggles through open windows (or open Private windows if the current dsiplay is InPrivate)
Ctrl-n opens a new window
Shift-ctrl-n opens a new private window
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Thanks vldmr - very useful! I'm also loving that the Ecs key goes back in Firefox...
Esc goes back throughout the entire system...
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I installed Saka key addon for Firefox. It's great in the sense that it allows for almost completely keyboard-based browsing, except for one thing:
Is there some shortcut to move the focus to URL/Location bar? I cannot find one. CTRL+L or ALT+D doesn't work. Right now I have to always hit on it from touchscreen to be able to type in a link or search term.
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I installed Saka key addon for Firefox. It's great in the sense that it allows for almost completely keyboard-based browsing, except for one thing:
Is there some shortcut to move the focus to URL/Location bar? I cannot find one. CTRL+L or ALT+D doesn't work. Right now I have to always hit on it from touchscreen to be able to type in a link or search term.
Well, the list of shortcuts for firefox in the first message of this thread does include ctrl-t, with disclaimer that this gets you new tab as well.
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I installed Saka key addon for Firefox. It's great in the sense that it allows for almost completely keyboard-based browsing, except for one thing:
Is there some shortcut to move the focus to URL/Location bar? I cannot find one. CTRL+L or ALT+D doesn't work. Right now I have to always hit on it from touchscreen to be able to type in a link or search term.
Well, the list of shortcuts for firefox in the first message of this thread does include ctrl-t, with disclaimer that this gets you new tab as well.
Well, Opera has a ctrl-t function as well, but doesn't focus the URL/location bar... Oddly Vivaldi doesn't focus on the URL/location bar either when pressing ctrl-t, but has a functioning ctrl-l... (So you need to press ctrl-t and then ctrl-l to be able to do something useful on a new tab in Vivaldi. But you do get to the URL/location bar in the CURRENT tab by simply pressing ctrl-l...)
And as I posted somewhere else on this forum as well: Vivaldi gives you direct access to tab 1-9 (or 10) with ctrl-(1-9/0)...
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Well, the list of shortcuts for firefox in the first message of this thread does include ctrl-t, with disclaimer that this gets you new tab as well.
Yes, but what if I don't want to create a new tab...
As a workaround I guess I could create a new tab, type my URL in, navigate to previous tab (Q with Saka by default), and close it with ctrl+w.
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F1 through F10
I was using vim under termux today with plugins/setup from my x86 box, and was unpleasantly surprised with function keys (alt-number) not working. They do work in the same session in other programs, such as mc. Anyone has any opinion - why vim is different? Thanks
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Well, the list of shortcuts for firefox in the first message of this thread does include ctrl-t, with disclaimer that this gets you new tab as well.
Yes, but what if I don't want to create a new tab...
As a workaround I guess I could create a new tab, type my URL in, navigate to previous tab (Q with Saka by default), and close it with ctrl+w.
Shift-tab a few times works in Chrome.