Visually assign Windows keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys with Qliner

Posted on November 11, 2007 at 4:22 pm

Qliner Hotkeys is a freeware Windows application that allows you to assign keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys in a visual manner. Qliner is a very simple to use and very effective keyboard productivity software. If you’ve ever started using keyboard shortcuts or hotkeys, you’ve probably noticed how hard it can be to remember which key combinations are assigned to which actions.

Qliner tries to solve this problem by making it very easy to quickly view all of the keyboard shortcuts possible by displaying a virtual keyboard on your desktop. Also, you can assign actions such as opening a program to a hotkey by simply dragging and dropping items to the virtual keyboard.

Simply hold the Windows key for 3 seconds and a virtual keyboard will instantly pop-up showing all shortcuts and hotkeys.

The keyboard is high configurable: you can change the color and the layout to exactly match your physical keyboard. Once the virtual keyboard shows up on your desktop, you can simply drag and drop icons onto the keyboard to assign shortcut keys.

You can also right click on any key and you’ll get a built-in list of shortcuts that you can assign such as taking a screenshot, running a shell command, opening the system clock, adjusting the volume, etc.

Another nice feature is that it switches based on the application you are using automatically. So if you open the virtual keyboard while in Word, you’ll see the Word shortcuts, open it in Excel, and you’ll see only Excel shortcuts, and same thing for IE, Photoshop, etc.

Overall, the program is very cool and really great for people who love to use keyboard shortcuts all the time. The software does not hog up resources and has a really nice interface, so it makes it more fun to use. Definitely worth checking out!

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