Wednesday, 5 October 2011

Add/change keyboard shortcuts (Ubuntu)

  • How to:
    1. Navigate to System->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts.
    2. The existing keyboard shortcuts can be found here. They can be changed.
    3. Click the add button to add your own.
  • My favourites: I have customized the shortcuts to act just like in Windows:
    • Hide all windows and set focus to Desktop: (Windows + d)
    • To open the file explorer: Although there is a default combination to open the home folder, you can add a new command to open any folder:
              nautilus --browser folder_path

              Eg: nautilus --browser /home/myname/d-drive
      Note: nautilus is the default file browser in Ubuntu

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks.

If you have changed sth. with gnome-keybinding-properties (for example disabled a keyboard shortcut, e.g. ALT+F1 -that shows the main menu of the panel-) but the changes don't work (and F5 or CTRL+R on the desktop don’t solve it) this command can solve the problem:
metacity --replace (you may run it from ALT+F2)

This (re)starts the Metacity window manager.

You can also start Metacity (but not restart it; only works to start Metacity if another window manager is in use before) running:
gnome-appearance-properties (also possible from ALT+F2) and setting "Visual Effects" to None

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