What the fuck does this do again?
What the fuck does this do again?
Lucas Howard
Blake Davis
Can't you read? It locks the scroll
Elijah Scott
you press it and get a girlfriend
John Adams
exist for no reason
Oliver Johnson
what did user mean by this
Anthony Jones
it's the synergy lock to screen key
Hunter Johnson
it stops the screen from scrolling so you can read some of it when a bunch of stuff zooms by
in fact, it still does this on the framebuffer console
Mason Peterson
>press print screen
>it doesn't print the screen
Leo Watson
don't press that shit bro!
Jayden Gutierrez
In *nix systems it locks the scrolling in the terminal so it does not scroll automatically and then you can use the arrow keys to manually scroll up/down one line at a time or use the page up/down keys to scroll page by page or home/end to reach the top/bottom of the screen.
Ethan Sanchez
actually it used to in some special cases no?
Joseph Martinez
Nicholas Hill
According to some ancient Windows 95 UX documentation, "When the SCROLL LOCK key is toggled on and the user presses a navigation key, [like Pg. Up/Down, arrows, etc] the view scrolls without affecting the cursor or selection."
Tyler Martinez
bought me a deagle + nades in cs 1.6
Matthew Perry
Then why isn't it called "lock scroll"?
"scroll lock" implies you have a lock and it will scroll through it.
Brody Rodriguez
Saves a screenshot in Homeworld
Leo Butler
I assume it used to on old operating systems: instead of taking a screenshot it would print whatever is on the screen.
Could be very handy to fax tech support with an error message.
Or when you want to make a manual for your program.
Hudson Bailey
Toggles my mic mute.
Nathan Smith
>lock caps
Zachary Bailey
Whatever a specific program wants it to do.
Owen Martinez
It allows me to switch my KVM without leaving the keyboard
Ryder Carter
that is numlockx3 for me
Jeremiah Hernandez
When we didnt used mouse we hit that key and the arrows would scroll folders instead of the files inside it.
Bentley Murphy
No don't do this! It creates mustard gas!
Juan Bailey
Why would anyone want to print a direct representation of a screen? Screenshots are ugly as fuck. That ugliness is compounded in paper form.
Nolan Bennett
Try using the arrow keys in Excel with and without Scroll Lock on.
Thomas Sanders
>press print screen
>it doesn't print the screen
I'm guessing you're on windows?
Try pressing the windows key, and print screen at the same time.
Landon Williams
>press any key
Nicholas Sullivan
Ayden Murphy
Just like op
Carson Wood
wow very rude
Colton Powell
also you arent very attractive and your parents are disappointed in you
Charles Anderson
to think i've been using the pause button for this the whole time
Liam Myers
Not OP but so true for me.
Nathan Torres
The key is from CLI days you tard
Asher Kelly
if i remember from youtoob video, it was some weird indecisive fuckup that made it's way in IBM-compatible keyboards and stayed there because nobody knew what it was supposed to do, so better not remove it
lets you scroll horizontally in spreadsheets with pg down & up i think
Kayden Thompson
Less a fuckup and more planning for anticipated uses that never came to be.
Brayden Campbell
or if you're on a mac, press thr mac key and print screen at the same time
Jason Stewart
just tried it, doesn't work
Dominic Kelly
This actually makes for a good autism test since only someone with autism would interpret it to be an actual physical key
Samuel Kelly
because it's an adjective, like car horn or car race not horn car or race-car
Caleb Morales
Nathan Long
It works in windows excel. w/ that shit on with the arrows you move the screen without you select a rectangle
Tyler Jones
woah
Parker Thompson
I can't pass 5 seconds of that video
Wyatt Young
Acts as a good Push To Talk key when bound to left-alt or some other key not often used but might normally do something. That's about it though.
Julian Gonzalez
I have definitely seen a "race car" before
Jackson Peterson
it stops auto scroll in the tty
so you can read while a program is still outputting
go to a empty tty log in
type ls -R /
and press scroll lock to see what it does
Josiah Jones
Why is every facebook frog pic always accompanied by some appallingly idiotic comment? It's like it's designed to be that way. Fucking incredible.
Wyatt Foster
t. soy
Parker Stewart
It's used to prevent thieves from stealing the scrolls you carry in most RPGs
It's particularly useful when they are heavy, like in the Elder Scrolls. Just lock them somewhere and no one can take them.
Lincoln Ward
>It's like it's designed to be that way
Jonathan Powell
It sucks your dick!
Jason Sanders
google it
Mason Edwards
What does the "Pause" button do? You can't pause multiplayer games so wtf
Isaiah Roberts
Because you're not using a terminal, just a terminal emulator. Try it in tty