Shortcuts?

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NOOB QUESTION LOL
 or at least some way of assigning programs to keypresses or whatever?

There's a Commodity that comes with Workbench called FKey which does exactly this. It's in the Workbench:Tools/Commodities/ directory. Just drag and drop it into your Workbench Startup drawer, double click on it and assign some programs to the keys. I have F1 set up to run the command "Avail Flush", which is always a quick handy way of flushing the RAM without needing to run any extra apps or patches to do it for you. You can also just press Left-Amiga & "e" to execute a command, then you can just type in ed or ced, or cli. Or just set it up as an F-Key.

If your FKey GUI pops up when you start your Workbench up and you don't want it to, click once on the icon, go to the Icons-Information in the menu and make sure it has the tooltype set "CX_POPUP=NO".

Although there are heaps of docks, menus and other launcher programs on the Amiga, this has got to be one of the quickest and less complicated ways to launch programs, and it comes with Workbench.

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I guess I should also note that it's easy enough to leave an icon out, similar to a Windows shortcut (except it doesn't make a "copy", it uses the actual icon), by selecting the icon, going to the Icons menu and selecting "Leave Out". This will leave the icon on the desktop so you can click on it without needing to open any windows up. You can then move the icon to where you want it to stay, click it and select "Snapshot" from the Icons menu.

I've found it's more memory efficient to have ten programs assigned to FKey than it is to leave ten icons out on the desktop, and when you're running a 1 or 2mb system, you want to try and be efficient with your RAM.