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Wow I never thought about Ctrl+Click to deselect in that situation. I've probably wasted at least an hour of my life by giving up and re-opening the window in a
by tylermenezes 6y ago
Wow I never thought about Ctrl+Click to deselect in that situation. I've probably wasted at least an hour of my life by giving up and re-opening the window in a different way. Thanks!
(I actually asked someone more knowledgable about this once and was told that it's my fault for using the file picker incorrectly and I simply need to stop doing that.)
- formerly_proven 6y agoCan't take credit for that — someone told me to use ctrl+click in this situation after I ranted about it elsewhere.
- tsukurimashou 6y agoOne thing I was happy to discover as a kid was shift + tab to go backwards with input selection (Spacebar to trigger checkboxes was nice too)
- jfim 6y agoThese shortcuts have been a thing for quite a while too, they come from the IBM CUA guidelines [0]. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access
- StillBored 6y agoI'm a regular user of the CUA guideline's copy/paste shortcuts. Those shortcuts work in pretty much every MS OS from the early 1990s until recently. Linux has been a mess, but KDE has been pretty decent at enforcing global shortcuts. The past 5 years though have been a nightmare, MS has really messed their UI up, and various applications/toolkits or whatever the problem no longer properly support the CUA guidelines which in the past were the one assured way of doing an operation cross applications and various OSs (windows+linux/kde). Maybe its time to start going to a few developer conferences and giving talks about how useful system wide shortcuts that work across multiple OSs really are.
- snvzz 6y agoI tried C-shift-A, but didn't work. Control click seems to work.