alt gr key

[hazelnut]

You know when you find out something and you think ''why didn't I know that before?''

 

I just found out that on my keyboard if I hold the alt gr key down and then press an arrow key it turns my screen upside down. (UK keyboard)

 

Now to work out when I will need this

 

P.S. It also adds an accent over a vowel if you hold it down and then press a vowel key á é ú

[nodles]

I guess that depends of the driver/GPU/settings used, but I knew that you could rotate screen with "key" + arrows. At work had to "fix" some of these PC's, 'cause the user had accidentally pressed "something".

Also a good prank.

[Corona]

When I hold the alt key my left & right arrows navigate me to last page/next page. I never knew that before.

 

What's the alt gr key?

[DennisD]

Doesn't work for me. How disappointing.

 

Must be down to nodles reason.

[kroozer]

. . . rotate screen with "key" + arrows.

 

Where is the "key" key?

[Winapp2.ini]

GR is ` (~), I believe.

[Corona]

Alt/tilde/vowel/arrow key? I'm not a pod person. I only have 2 hands with fingers too short for piano lessons.

(Besides, it doesn't seem to work with generic US keyboards.)

[Winapp2.ini]

It's likely a GPU specific thing. The laptops in my highschool had the hotkey Nodles mentioned

[kroozer]

Top and bottom layouts have the Alt GR key. Doesn't turn my screen upside down.

[Corona]

Me neither. Just navigates forward & backward.

[hazelnut]

Seems to work on laptops more than standalone keyboards.

 

Just another oddity I guess

[nodles]

Weird, tried with laptop and checked the settings; rotation is enabled and hotkeys are Ctrl+Alt+Up/Down/Left/Right. Though I've NVIDIA GPU and Intel GPU in this, but I did select Intel for use. At work those were Intel's GPU (on laptops), which had this rotation option.

[rridgely]

I've only seen this hotkey on Intel based graphics.

[Super Fast]

Doesn't work on mine. And I have Intel based onboard graphics. Right now, I am switched to the ATI graphics. My card supports rotation, but I tried an assorted combination of the keys you guys listed above, & no screen rotation.

 

However, I can manually do so by using the mouse to right click on the desktop, then personalize or whatever.

 

If your screen rotates via hotkeys, it was more than likely set up to do so via either your HP/Compaq/IBM etc manufacturer in their onscreen keyboard settings they came preset with, or some OEM distributing their special Windows branded computers, with assorted hotkeys enabled.

 

I do not think that most computers have this by default on a basic, clean installation of Windows. It may also change from region to region. Mine is USA.

[hazelnut]

On my husbands laptop if he has for example Microsoft Security Essentials open on the screen then holds down altgr key and presses an arrow key it will auto scroll the tab tops of MSE. In other words it will move from the updates tab to the scanner tab etc.

[Super Fast]

Hazel, I see in Wikipedia the AltGr key used for graphing functions, as you tell everyone about.

 

Must be a UK thing.

 

No such key listed on my USA keyboard.

[Nergal]

"ALT GR keys -The ALT GR key is on the right side of the keyboard on some non-U.S. keyboard layouts. ALT GR is equivalent to the CTRL+ALT key combination"

 

 

 

Also

 

http://www.computeractive.co.uk/ca/pc-help/1914031/pc-help-what-alt-gr-key