keyboard shortcuts are not documented anywhere #82
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apparently this is not even a full list. please post all shortcut keys in documentation |
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There is also:
More documentation is always a good thing, I'll add these to the wiki and/or website soon. Thanks. |
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Good comment ! Last comment : I've just tried to modify the wiki to help a little by making a first draft for the 'Shortcuts' page (in French for the moment). Actually, this is the 1st time I'm trying to modify such a page and don't really know :
Tell me what you think, and sorry for my newbie questions ;) Thanks ! |
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is there any keyboard shortcut for "erase all"? very need that. |
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Hiya, sorry to necro this thread - is there a way to customize keyboard shortcuts? I've moved on to this from OneNote and it's saved me so much hassle (it's wonderful!), but I've found the shortcuts aren't super intuitive. I'd like to change in my download eg. Zoom in from ctrl + shift + + to ctrl + + (it's listed as the latter above, but it won't work without the shift for me), especially as the zoom out is currently ctrl + -. Select to ctrl + s (as there doesn't seem to be a save shortcut anyway), marker to either ctrl + p or ctrl + m and so-forth. I'm looking to suggest the program to others but want to just double check this one first as I imagine they're as picky about 'universal' shortcuts as me :) Also, is it possible to get the taskbar to show while the program is open? Thanks heaps in advance! |
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@anghilmi were you able to figure out the shortcut for "erase all" ? |
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On macOS the shortcuts don't even seem to work. |
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All the shortcuts cuts actually works on my mac. But need to make some custom one so as to configure it with my Graphics tablet |
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Please yes! This a major blocker for me. I'd much prefer to use OpenBoard for everything but I am using gInk for "Desktop mode" because I need the ability to use keyboard shortcuts (so I can program them into my stylus buttons) to 1) Toggle between arrow/select and pen and 2) Quickly erase the entire screen |
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Just to let you know, none of the shortcuts work on Mac. Not with the ctrl key, nor with the command key. |
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The shortcuts work on my 2 Macs, when I replace "Command" for "Control". I am running OpenBoard 1.5.4 on Mojave and 1.5.1 on High Sierra. |
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I was looking through the source code and I found another shortcut: Control-arrow keys scroll the screen around. |
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Is there a shortcut for "new page"? |
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So, I went through the source code (resources/forms/mainWindow.ui) where all the shortcuts are listed in an xml format. Short answer for "new page" and "erase all" : there are no shortcut defined, althought the action are defined (so it should be easy to add the shortcuts to the xml files and re-compile, I will try that later). So here are all the shorcuts I've found, but I think all of them were already found before.
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I've found a shortcut for "new page": INSERT key. Still trying to find one for Scroll page. |
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Control+arrow keys will move the page around.
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I've found a shortcut for "new page": INSERT key.
Still trying to find one for Scroll page.
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For me it only changes to the next (right or up)/previous (left or down) page... =/ |
For me it is conflicting with next/previous page so it move the page around and change it at the same time... |
I found it the most stupid way: Pressing all keys, one by one, until I've noticed something happening. :D |
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Any idea on shortcut for changing the colors? (color 1, 2, 3...)? |
Really, this is a big question! |
Ctrl + A , once all selected - press 'Delete' |
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I suggest adding the shortcuts to the tooltips. For example, "Erase Annotation (Ctrl + E)" and "Annotate Document (Ctrl + I). |
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When the stylus toolbar is hidden, I'm not able to use shortcuts associated with the buttons on the toolbar. For me, the main reason for using shortcuts is to hide the toolbar, and utilize maximum space. |
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Bug: after using the erazer tool, shadow of the erazer brush (the almost transparent disc) stays on the screen (and, stays until I use the erazer next time) if I move to the pen tool using shortcut (ctrl+i). |
same problem here. change from eraser to pen with shortcut, leaves the circle on the screen. same action but using toolbar works fine. same os here, w10 |
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I find another shortcut or at least a workaround to swap control display and view display under Linux whit xfce: |
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I've collected all shortcuts from previous posts that work on Windows and added some, which I found by coincidence:
(The alt + backspace shortcut didn't work for me on windows.) |
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I think all these #82 (comment) keyboard shortcuts should be shown in a tab in OpenBoard Also, I think it will be more user-friendly if the keyboard shortcuts and pen-button functions are considered separate issues to solve. Especially for switching between pen and eraser, I guess everyone prefers using the pen buttons than the keyboard shortcuts. |
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Is there any way to customize these shortcuts? The product is great, but It's a pain to use the given shortcuts. |
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It would be really nice to have a shortcut for Scroll Page. To be honest, would be nice to have a shortcut that cycles through all the options in the toolbar because (I guess) no pen + tablet will have that many buttons. |
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As listed above you have Ctrl + Arrow Key (left, right, up, down) do navigate on a page and PgUp / PgDown to go to the previous / next page. And yes, there are hundreds of ideas for improving usability for different situations and different user tastes. Cycling through options is indeed a new one - but be assured: OpenBoard can never fulfill all of them. But of course it is always good to compile a "wish list" - and especially now before Xmas! 😄 |
For me does the same thing. Changes to the next page which is moved towards the arrow I pressed. If there is a way to fix this, then we can write on A4 page easy by scrolling and change landscape 16:9 or 16:10 page boarders. |
I also hope there is a shortcut for that. My workaround is "Ctrl + A" and "Delete" or just create a new page |
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On Mac, it true that for most commands, substituting Cmd in for Ctrl in the above mentioned works. The most disappointing exception is scrolling the page (Cmd+{arrow-key}), which (when the document has more than one page) will change the page. Others have experienced this same conflict. I have tried searching the package contents but it seems there is no obvious configuration file which controls the shortcuts. |
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Note that a pull request has been submitted a year ago to make shortcuts configurable: #460 |
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Bravo to @letsfindaway for this feature! |
I think following are complete list of shortcut keys-ctrl + a = select all ctrl + '+' = zoom in Home = first page Up arrow = Previous page Ctrl + Shift + h = Desktop mode alt + return = preferences Control + arrow keys = will move the page around. |
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Hi. Do you know any shortcut in order to hand move? Thank you! |
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With Better Touch Tool (BTT) on Mac, you can remap the keyboard shortcuts of Openboard to your own preference. For instance, I am using :
Also, to make life easier using shortcuts with the left hand onlyn I use "Cmd-Number" :
nb: Cmd-E for Eraser is fine with left hand The (so badly) missing shortcuts for me are:
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I have missed a shortcut for the panning (hand) tool. You can add shortcuts by editing Holding down shift with the pen tool to draw a straight line would also be very useful. An alternative to having a key shortcut for the scrolling tool would be to scroll with the pointer tool if a modifier key, like Alt, is pressed. |
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Hello, |
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Really great suggestions to recompile and add a shortcut to drag. I use one of wacom's tablets, and ended up crating a authotkey script that clicks on either the pen or the tool to drag for me, and bound it to one of the tablet's buttons. Just thought it was easier :D |
Hi @wilxuh, I'm using a Wacom Tablet too and have the same issue –not being able to drag easily. Could you please share how you solved it? Never done an authotkey script before 😅. Thanks! |
Hi @guacamolengo ! Since I couldn't figure out how to recompile openboard in less than one hour or so, I decided to workaround using an Autohotkey script that basically just clicks somewhere on the screen when a key combination is pressed. Works only in Windows, as far as I know (but I don't see why a similar principle can't work in Linux or Mac, for instance). Since I only use the same pc and monitor when using the tablet, it works well, and some of the controls and buttons (drag, for instance) must be visible on the screen. Here is an example:
^!0 is the hotkey - Ctrl (^), Alt (!), and the "0", which is bound to one of my Wacom's buttons. The coordinates to click (1100 and 1700) are the position where the pen tool is on my monitor. I put in some delays with Sleep to avoid funky things. I think you can just find out where exactly are the things on the screen you want to click, choose your hotkeys, and ask ChatGPT to generate the rest if you need. Here is the full section of my script devoted to that: The drag and drop one is a bit finicky; if you use it with the pen close to the tablet, it'll just select itself automatically in some area. I tried to fix it by a number of ways but couldn't, so I just got used to raise the pen a bit when I use it. As you can see, nothing is quite ideal, but it's been working for me so far. I hope this helps! |
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Hi @wilxuh, Thank you so much for sharing! I'll give it a try. You say it's not ideal but in the absence of custom shortcuts this is super helpful 😄. |
and others
keyboard shortcuts should not require the user to follow the fork back to openSankore .
This is critical for live presentations.
documentation should be added to the wiki.
ctrl-g – Change to Pointer
ctrl-j – Change to Line
ctrl-k – Change to Write (text – box)
ctrl-m – Change to Marker
ctrl-e – Change to Eraser
ctrl-t – Toggle Tools
ctrl-d – Show documents
ctrl-b – Show board
ctrl-w – Show web browser (the open sankore/openboard browser)
ctrl-, – Show preferences
ctrl-o – Zoom Out
ctrl-0 Zoom to 100% (that is a zero)
ctrl-i – Change to Pen
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