On modern keyboards, the function keys often work better with their secondary (or now primary?) functions as media-keys, screen brightness and what have you. I use both Linux and Windows and closing applications and windows using the same hotkey is nice. I want to mention just one keycombo that I find very useful. “The PowerToys Keyboard Manager enables you to redefine keys on your keyboard.” I like it for “big windows” so I can see my background image a bit and retain the ability to drag and drop from the app onto the desktop or vice versa. A large almost fullscreen zone on the primary monitor.Nice place for a minimalistic-sized Spotify window A small rectangular zone in the far bottom corner of the secondary screen.This comes in handy when I use that same area for a note taking app (that might be OneNote, Obsidian or good old Notepad++) during Team meetings on my primary monitor A tall narrow zone for my ToDo list application (I use Todoist) on the right side of my second monitor which puts it near the center of my viewing field.I have found that setting up my own overlapping zones works very well. It is awesome if you have a lot of screen realestate and having many applications open and visible at the same time. My all-time favorite PowerToys app is Fancy Zones.

“FancyZones is a window manager utility for arranging and snapping windows into efficient layouts to improve the speed of your workflow ” Nowadays, it’s one application in the systray and you get a whole bunch of different features. exe files if I’m not mistaken) I’d download and run on my PC. I started using Microsoft PowerToys many years ago when it was separate applications (mostly standalone. “Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity.”

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