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Most used shortcuts in Gnome and Nautilus
Howdy! I thought that it would be useful to post a practical selection of shortcut keys for GNOME (the Desktop Environment) and Nautilus (the File Manager) and some information about customizing shortcut keys in Ubuntu. I wrote it especially for Ubuntu beginners, but I hope it will prove useful for all.
1.GNOME/Nautilus shortcut keys: Ctrl-H: show hidden files Ctrl-N: new window Ctrl-Shift-N: create new folder Alt-Home : jump to home folder Alt-Enter : file / folder properties F9 : toggle side-pane Alt-F1 : launch applications menu Alt-F2 : launch "run application" dialogue Ctrl-Alt - Right/Left arrow : move to the next virtual desktop Ctrl-Alt-Shift - Right/Left arrow : take current window to the next virtual desktop Ctrl-Alt-D: minimize all windows, and gives focus to the desktop. Alt-Tab: switch between windows. When you use these shortcut keys, a list of windows that you can select is displayed. Release the keys to select a window. Ctrl-Alt-Tab: switch the focus between the panels and the desktop. When you use these shortcut keys, a list of items that you can select is displayed. Release the keys to select an item. Ctrl-Alt-L: lock the screen (tested only in Ubuntu) Ctrl-L: shortcut for opening locations-by default the path is the home folder* / : same as Ctrl-L but has the root (/) as default path* (shortcut found on here) * both shortcuts can be used while you are on the desktop (no window active) Ctrl-T : move to trash (in Nautilus) Quite dangerous key combination because many of us are used to press these keys in order to open a new tab. Because we all delete items using the Delete key, I recommend to deactivate this shortcut key. To do that, go to System » Preferences » Appearance » Interface. Select Editable menu shortcut keys and close the dialog box. Click on the Edit menu in the File Browser. Click the Empty Trash item (it has Ctrl-T as the keyboard shortcut) Press the Delete key to get rid of the shortcut. You can find all GNOME shortcut keys here 2.How to create a custom hotkey to launch whatever application you want in GNOME: As an example, we will set a lock-screen shortcut. Open "gconf-editor" as the user as you're logged in in GNOME (typing gconf-editor in the terminal or "Run Application"). Go to apps > metacity > keybinding_commands Here we have a list of twelve slots for commands. Double click on e.g. "run_command_1" In Key Value Type in the name of the application or command you want to launch (e.g. gnome-screensaver-command --lock). Go to apps > metacity > global_keybindings Double click on e.g. "run_command_1" Change the key value to whatever key combination you like (e.g. <Ctrl><Alt>L).Press "Ok". 3.How to create/change GNOME shortcuts: Click on System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts Click the action in the list and press Enter. Press the new key or key combination you want to assign to the action. (To clear a shortcut, press the Backspace key) Hope it helps.;) If you like it, please digg it. Thank you. |
First and Foremost thanks for taking the efforts and posting it for us.
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I think we need to enable it using "gconf-editor" but I don't know the exact setting. Does any one of you know how to enable locking the screen in GNOME the way it can be done in KDE. |
System > Preferences > Keyboard shortcuts. You can set whatever you want.
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it's very intersting shortcut keys
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Detailed info you can find in this tutorial. If for some reason it wont work, post the problem. |
Thanks for the detailed tutorial. I placed following in the appropriate section:
gnome-screensaver-command --lock Check if you can find anything wrong in the syntax. It looks good to me. I am getting following error: http://img410.imageshack.us/my.php?i...ckerrorvj6.png I thought we need "gnome-screensaver-debuginfo" RPM to get it work. I installted rhel5 rpm "gnome-screensaver-debuginfo-2.16.1-8.el5.i386.rpm" which got successfully installed on RHEL4 but still I am not being able to lock the screen in gnome :scratch: I am using Redhat (RHEL4 AS U4). Again thanks for taking the efforts |
maybe this redhat version is still using xscreensaver. If that is the case you should use this command: xscreensaver-command -lock. try it in the terminal. It's faster.
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Hey sica07, thanks for the efforts. I have made some progress in this issue. I am being able to lock the screen for normal user but not being able to do so with superuser. For normal user initially "xscreensaver" was not running so I had to start it and then onwards I am being able to lock the screen.
But when I try to start the "xscreensaver" as a superuser I get following error message: Quote:
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I don't have any idea. I won't strat with the "Don't log in as root" preach, beacuse I see you know it quite good. Anyway, it could be helpful making a .Xscreensaver file in the root folder. Also, see the man pages for Xauth and xdm (I will try to find the solution, too).
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