Most of the times it so happens that we want to do something quickly but don’t want to move our hands from keyboard to the mouse. There are some shortcut keyboard keys/combinations which lets you save couple of clicks. These shortcuts make our life easy. It is true for everything : Windows, Mac or Ubuntu Linux.
Today I am going to provide information about some such shortcuts in Ubuntu. Though there is always a shortcut for all applications menu items. But for a start couple of ‘ALT’ and ‘Fn’ key combinations are here, learn them by heart, they will be useful for your Ubuntu life:
Today I am going to provide information about some such shortcuts in Ubuntu. Though there is always a shortcut for all applications menu items. But for a start couple of ‘ALT’ and ‘Fn’ key combinations are here, learn them by heart, they will be useful for your Ubuntu life:
- ALT + F1: Displays application menu and expands it. Use arrow keys to navigate further.
- ALT + F2: ‘Run application’ dialog box
- ALT + F4: Closes the selected window.
- ALT + F5: Reduces the size of current window if it is maximized. Use arrow keys to change the size.
- ALT + F7: Move the selected window. Use arrow keys to move it around.
- ALT + F8: Resize the selected window. Use arrow keys.
- ALT + F9: Minimize the selected window.
- ALT + F10: Maximize the selected window.
- ALT + Tab: Cycle through the open windows. Brings the window in focus to front.
- ALT + Space bar: Displays context sensitive menu.
These are couple of ‘ALT’ and ‘Fn’ function key combination which helps you navigate through the desktop quickly without using your mouse or touchpad.
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Anurag Bansal
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Posted by Bill Bartmann on September 3, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Cool site, love the info.
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[...] Do you remember keyboard shortcuts? 2 Anurag Bansal May 29, 2008 Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic. Suddenly my computer mouse stopped working for some days. Initially it looked very tough to move around without the mouse, but slowly I got accustomed to the old keyboard shortcuts, I used to use during my engineering. I created this little refresher on keyboard shortcuts so that you can also refresh your memories. Sometimes keyboard shortcuts are so much convenient to use because you don’t have to lift your hand from the keyboard. Once you get accustomed to shortcuts you won’t even feel like using the mouse, I am sure. Below are some of them and couple of other I mentioned in my other post: [...]