Mnemonics, Mnemonics Everywhere

The M is silent. In computing this stands for the underlined letters in menus that can be triggered using an Alt+Letter key combination, one that you can remember and apply later to navigate around more quickly.

Display Configuration dialog with various controls (Resolution, Scale, Orientation, Refresh rate, etc). Most labels have an underlined letter indicating they have a mnemonic
How about you just press Alt+R and use the arrow keys to change screen resolution?

Qt and other toolkits typically use an ampersand to denote a mnemonic when assigning a menu entry. For instance, “&Shutdown” will be displayed as “Shutdown” and trigger on Alt+S whereas “Slee&p” will be “Sleep” and trigger on Alt+P. Of course this isn’t limited to menus, pretty much any control, buttons and what not, can have mnemonics. Since they are part of the label, a translated string can and likely will have a different one.

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