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If I only have a plug in keyboard for a tower computer, is that enough to operate it (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by cheese_greater@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

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I have a monitor/HDMI. No mouse

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[–] aramis87@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes, and no. You should be able to do many things using keyboard shortcuts - alt-tab to switch windows, shift-tab for previous field, alt-space to move a window, etc. Much of this has been standard in Windows for decades, and I can't imagine them deliberately going out of their way to handicap that capability, especially with ADA accommodations.

However, companies making programs and applications, and people designing webpages, are not as aware of these accommodations and frequently overlook things when designing their programs and pages. I should fully expect you to run across a badly designed page at some point that's going to leave you frustrated.

I'd suggest printing out a list of keyboard shortcuts (both for the O/S and whatever programs you're likely to use) but expect to run into poor design decisions at some point.

Is this a temporary situation ("I'm just setting up this PC, I'll grab a mouse later"), or a permanent one? If the latter, is there someone you know who might have a spare mouse?

[–] unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth 2 points 2 days ago

You can even emulate a mouse with a full-sized keyboard. There was (and I'm assuming still is? I'm remembering this from Windows 98 times) a function that will let you use your numpad to emulate a mouse. It was somewhere in the control panel and could definitely be accessed using only the keyboard.