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Show Desktop keyboard shortcut is not in the list anymore?
Last night I've set "Show Desktop" keyboard shortcut from System Settings>Keyboard>Shortcuts and shutdown the computer with no errors. Now the key is not working and the Show Desktop is not even on ...
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Global keyboard shortcut for copy, cut and paste
How can I define a global shortcuts for copy, cut and paste?
I'm used to Mac's ⌘+C for copy and ⌘+V for paste. They are global, so I can use them interchanging data between CLI and GUI apps.
How can ...
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How can I set up hot keys to launch applications? [duplicate]
How can I set up hot keys to launch applications?
I have created a bunch of launchers for my favorite apps that I keep on the desktop - would really like to be able to launch them with keystrokes. ...
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Why does CTRL key resize window in Unity desktop?
I have an almost out-of-the-box install of 12.04 Precise. I am familiar with assigning and reassigning keyboard shortcuts, as I interact with my computer almost entirely through the keyboard.
I am ...
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Keyboard Media Volume Control not working
im having a bit of an issue with my volume keys.
They worked fine, until I recently updated (kernel, etc) and installing Ati latest driver.
The update was a standard update:
apt-get update, ...
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Shortcuts no longer work for move window to left/right of screen in 12.04
I used to be able to send windows to the left/right half of the screen with ctrl-windows-left and ctrl-windows-right in 12.04. Now the left/right shortcuts do not work, but ctrl-windows-up / down ...
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Assign hotkeys to paste predefined text
I am looking for a program that runs on Ubuntu 12.04+ x86_64 which allows pasting pre-defined text based on hotkey combinations. For instance:
Ctrl+Alt+V+U: pastes my username
Ctrl+Alt+V+E: pastes ...
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How to disable Ctrl + Alt + Del in Unity
I have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and I want to disable the Ctrl+Alt+Del shortcut because it interferes with the same shortcut in my VirtualBox's Windows. How can I do this?
I tried to remove it from keyboard ...
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How to free the Print key
I would like to use the Print key for my own purpose. By default, it is bound to various screenshot functions.
I tried the following, which did not work: [System settings] [keyboard] [shortcuts] ...
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Disabling All Keyboard Shortcuts Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Hey I want to lock down Ubuntu so that it only has access to chrome and the ability to logout. Is there a way to get rid of all keyboard shortcuts?
Thanks for your help!
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Something has stolen my Ctrl+Shift+F12 shortcut key after a recent update. How can I find out what has stolen it?
I use this shortcut regularly inside IntelliJ IDEA. And now it is stolen by something else.
It is not displayed in the Keybaord settings, and I couldn't find it with gconf-editor.
Any ideas what app ...
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Alt+F2 doesn't display the Run Command Prompt in GNOME Shell
I have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS AMD64 and GNOME Shell 3.4.1 and for some reason the Alt+F2 keys stopped displaying the Run Command Prompt when pressed.
Now, I've seen the other answers that point you to ...
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Using guest OS key+mouse combos in Remmina
On 12.04, with default Remmina configuration, when you attach to a Win session via RDP, you can get key combos like Ctrl+C work easily, by simply enabling key capture mode (or pressing R_Ctrl).
The ...
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How to use ESC key for Emacs
When typing Esc within an Emacs window under Unity (Emacs 23 standard package), the sound is turned on/off, but Emacs does not receive the key.
How can I change (probably) unity such that the Esc ...
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XF86WakeUp keys - where do they come from?
$ head -1 /etc/issue && emacs --version | head -1
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS \n \l
GNU Emacs 23.3.1
From time to time I get undefined messages in the echo area (that do not show up in buffer ...
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How to create option to insert time stamp?
While editing text documents I need to put time stamps frequently. I thought of automating it in 2 different ways. None of these seem to be working.
Using nautilus-actions
I set up a new ...
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How I can launch my browser and Nautilus using defaults Ubuntu 12.04 shortcut?
In keyboard shortcut settings I see a launcher section that have 'WWW' and 'Explorer' labels inside the key combination column of the shortcut definition. What keys I must press to launch my browser ...
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Suspending the current ssh connection
I'm new to Ubuntu and trying to learn ssh connections. I learned trick to suspend the current SSH connection and come back to localhost using:
~ + Ctrl-Z
When I press Shift+~, I suppose that the ~ ...
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How to enable alt+right click to resize window
Been looking around and can't see to find any information on how to enable alt+right click for window resize?
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My mistake
Running Unity 12.04, I am logged in under failsafe graphics mode as i ...
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Custom keybindings without gnome-settings-daemon
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 (Fallback) and I am trying to slim it down, mostly for fun/learning experience.
I killed gnome-settings-daemon because I set up my theming from elsewhere. But now some of my ...
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Difference left/right super button
When I press my left Super key the gnome shell appears and when I press the right Super key it does not. Moreover pressing right Super + T does open a terminal at once, but when using left super I ...
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Custom keyboard shortcuts are reset. How can I make them set permanently?
I'm having a problem with both Ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10 with custom keyboard shorcuts. They are reset after a while (I can't find a pattern but it seems to be when a massive upgrade happens). It happend ...
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How do I disable the sleep button on my keyboard in U12.04?
Hello I have read Q and A : How do I disable the sleep button on my keyboard?
but in Ubuntu 12.04 64bit has
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-sleep "nothing"
gsettings ...
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863 views
Basic & most useful gnome-shell shortcuts
May I know what are the main and best useful gnome-shell short-cut keys?
i want them to switch the windows and select workspaces etc.
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Numblock wont shut off 12.04
after turning off my computer yesterday my computer was working fine but today i cant get the numblock to switch off normaly this wouldnt be a problem for someone but iam using a netbook (acer aspire ...
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How to recognize special function keys on keyboard
I have a Microsoft Digital Media 3000 Keyboard. None of the function keys or other special keys seem to do anything, what do I need to do to get them working (at the very least f2, as not having a ...
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Have windows key (meta) trigger Gnome-do instead of Unity Dash (12.04)
On my laptop the Unity Dash often launches really slowly. I might press the Windows button, and sometimes it will take up to 15 seconds to open, and the system becomes unresponsive during this time. ...
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keyboard shortcut for pasting on terminal window [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can not paste into terminal
We use Ctrl+V to paste stuff from clip board.
But this is not working on terminal window.
What is the keyboard shortcut to paste on a ...
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771 views
Disable/remove Cinnamon keyboard shortcurts
I installed Cinnamon on Ubuntu 12.04 using
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cinnamon
Now I am looking for a way to disable ...
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hotkeys do not work sometimes in ubuntu 12.04
I use Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity 2D and I've stumbled upon this issue: sometimes shortcut keys stop working in some windows. For instance, I have these windows opened usually: Google Chrome, Terminal, ...
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Can't unset window shortcut
I somehow set konsole to activate an open instance using Ctrl+Shift+T which also happens to be browsers default re-open closed tab shortcut. I want to unset this window shortcut on console but I ...
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Backlight key breaks input on unity
I have a Dell Studio 1747 with Ubuntu 12.04 and whenever I hit the F6 key to change the keyboards backlight brightness some strange stuff happens with unity. Some mouse input such as clicking on the ...
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Unable create a custom keyboard shortcut in 12.04
I'm using 12.04 64bit on a Dell Latitude E6410. I want to create a custom keyboard shortcut.
Now I found out some articles that says you can create a custom keyboard shortcut using the Super key. ...
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How can I make a keyboard shortcut key to show the launcher when hidden?
I have the launcher hidden, I want to make a short cut key to show the launcher (pop it out). I want to make that key the fn key.
1.How do I make that specific short cut key?
2.How can I make shot ...
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Jupiter Changes Display when using volume key bindings
I recently downloaded jupiter on ubuntu 12.04 ASUS U36JC and I noticed that my display would switch from clone to exterior to clone everytime that I used the keys that control the volume. Hit ...
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How to assign hot-keys to control Rhythmbox?
I wish to assign Ctrl+Space to rhythmbox play/pause but cannot figure out how to do so using the keyboard menu, for whenever I try, it is disabled for i do not know what i am meant to type into the ...
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How do I set a custom keyboard shortcut to control volume?
I would like to be able to set three custom keyboard shortcuts to be able to decrease, increase and mute the volume in Ubuntu 12.04 (Unity). On my old Ubuntu 10.04 (Gnome) system I made CTRL + [, CTRL ...
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Ctrl -C, Ctrl -V not working in different keyboard layout
When I am in English, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V works fine when I need to copy paste. But when I turn to Greek, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V and basically no shortcut almost works in Greek.
So each time I have to alt ...
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How do I make Super+W show open windows from all workspaces?
I know there is a bug in 12.04 which makes the Super+W shortcut only show open applications/programs from the current workspace, not all workspaces like it should.
Is there a workaround until this ...
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CTRL+ shortcuts doesn't work after compiz-manager installation
It was working on Gnome Fallback/Classic. But after compiz-manager package installation, I lost Ctrl + shortcut keys, they don't work anymore.
For example, in web browser typing Ctrl+C on some text ...
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How to set keyboard-shortcut to Meta in Kubuntu?
I would like to set a shortcut for the Run-Command in Kubuntu 12.04, where the shortcut key would be the Win key (aka Meta).
The Global Keyboard Shortcut settings however does not allow me to use the ...
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Is there a way to set a hotkey to change screen brightness? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to change the shortcut to adjust brightness?
The brightness keys on my laptop are not recognized by Ubuntu, which is a common problem for a variety of laptops, is ...
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Remap function keys to commands?
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 on a Samsung Series 9 (900X3A-A03), and changing the brightness through the function keys or the brightness control UI causes flickering and general instability, so I have a ...
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How to unbind Shift-Alt Up shortkey in 12.04?
How to unbind Shift + Alt + Up shortkey in Ubuntu 12.04? I can't find it in system's Keyboard shortcuts settings. I want to unbind this shortcut so I can use it in an application.
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Change the behavior of the capslock key
To be honest I'm not sure or what I want is possible but it would be very nice if this can be done.
I changed the behavior of the Capslock to act like a Ctrl key. Now it's just an Ctrl key only ...
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Pressing Super key always shows shortcut keys
When I simply press (not hold) Super I always see the shortcuts list. And after I release the button it stays on my screen. Normally pressing Super leads to Dash opening and to view the shortcuts list ...
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How do I set up keyboard shortcuts that use the Super key?
I want the Super key to behave as a regular modifier key, just like Ctrl, Shift and Alt.
Currently, it doesn't.
Using the System Settings to set a shortcut like Super+Up will set the shortcut, but ...
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GNU readline and the Alt key in 12.04
GNU readline lets you move a word forward/backward using M-f and M-b (where M is usually the Alt key). But ever since upgrading to 12.04 it stopped working.
At first I tried disabling the "Key to ...
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FN keys not working on an Asus N56V
The FN keys are not working
Using answer in 166261 question I installed the asus-wmi-dkms_0.2_all.deb.gz package
Now, using xev I see that the keys emit keycodes (for backlight keys xev says for ...
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Creating Custom Short cut Keys Ubuntu 12.04
I used to have my own shortcut keys to minify all the CSS and JS files for my websites after I saved the original larger version of the file. But that was on Ubuntu 11.04 and now I cannot figure out ...
