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December 9

Android developer setting

Good afternoon folks, what does the enable view attribute inspection mean? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ajax-x86 (talk • contribs) 17:40, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Enabling view attribute inspection will allow you see attributes (such as what image file is used for the background) that are associated with your views when you the Layout Inspector tool. This can be very helpful for debugging views during runtime. More information on this developer setting (and others) can be found in the Android Studio User Guide. Hope this helps! Bordwall(^talk⁄_ctrb) 14:22, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

Moving windows with a single keystroke (Windows 10)

Hello, I've looked around online but found nothing; probably I'm missing the right keywords.

I use keyboard shortcuts extensively, and I'm familiar with many of them to the point that I don't look at the keyboard at all when using them. Problem is, sometimes I end up doing something unintentionally, and I can't undo it without restarting the computer. In this case, there's some way whereby typing a few keystrokes causes Windows to do a completely different set of commands: down arrow minimises, up arrow maximises, left and right arrows un-maximise and align to one side. (The effect with these is the same as holding down the start button and hitting an arrow.) Other key commands do yet other things, e.g. Ctrl+S brings up Speech Recognition (again, the same as Win+Ctrl+S), and it's virtually impossible to use the keyboard for normal purposes. The last time this happened (earlier today), I'd been using my left hand to operate a bunch of commands, particularly Ctrl+H, Ctrl+V, and Alt+A. I'm on a QWERTY laptop with bottom-left Windows and Function keys.

How does one bring up this state of affairs, and more importantly, how does one end it without restarting? Nyttend (talk) 20:48, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

That sure sounds like the windows key is getting stuck. Does pressing the windows key again fix it? Or does fn-win do something special on your laptop? Also worth making sure that stickykeys isn't enabled in your accessibility settings. Egglz (talk) 15:11, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

It's definitely not getting stuck (if it were, restarting wouldn't work), and pressing it again doesn't seemingly have an effect if I remember rightly. Fn+Win doesn't seem to have an effect. I'd thought of Sticky Keys, but when I trigger it with any other key, I get a message that's basically "Do you really want to trigger Sticky Keys?" No message with this. Nyttend (talk) 15:22, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

It could well be getting stuck in a software sense rather than a hardware sense. The only potential solutions I found online:

• Someone suggested that fn-f6 disables the win key on certain laptops...if you do that while pressing win, maybe it locks it on?
• Using the windows on-screen keyboard to 'un-press' the windows key - awkward, but easier than a reboot.
• Checking what key presses are being received using something like autohotkey.
• Disabling the windows key completely in the registry
• Reinstalling windows
• Sticky keys dialogue is presented when you press shift five times, not by the 'stuck' key itself. Egglz (talk) 13:11, 12 December 2018 (UTC)