Questions about keyboard shortcuts: both which ones to use and how to create custom shortcuts.
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Window management shortcuts?
I've got a single massive monitor at home, and I've decided to mimic the Windows 7 window tiling shortcuts. I found a few guides online using wmctrl, and it's going well, save one thing: maximized ...
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Quickly place a window to another screen using only the keyboard
I know that using Alt-F7, I can use the keyboard to move the window around. I can also use the "Grid" plugin of Compiz to position quickly the window around my current monitor. The grid plugin doesn't ...
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How to fix Ctrl and Shift problems in games?
I often had trouble with Ctrl and Shift modifiers while playing games (maybe this is gnome specific).
For example if I press and hold Ctrl to crouch and I press 3 to select some gun while crouching I ...
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How can I suspend using a keyboard shortcut, without administrator privileges?
How can I set up a keyboard shortcut that I can use instead of clicking this menu item?
I have read about various terminal commands for suspending which I could easily assign to a keyboard ...
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Override Built-In Maverick Keyboard Shortcuts
Having used the Command+M keyboard shortcut to minimize windows in OS X, I'd like to use the same functionality in Ubuntu 10.10. When I try, though, it only brings up the "communications" section of ...
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Cycle around the “end” of workspaces in Gnome?
I have a typical Gnome setup, in which i can move/switch between workspaces, by hitting ctrl+alt+‹or›arrow. But when i'm in workspace 1, hitting ctrl+alt+‹ has no effect, and similarly for my maximum ...
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How to switch between chat windows in Kadu?
Ctrl+Tab doesnt work, Windows+Tab doesnt work as well. Any ideas?
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Shortcut select layout [closed]
How can I make Ubuntu to Enable Russian layout on left Shift key up, and English on right Shift key up. The key up, not key down needed because layout should not change on other shortcuts with shift ...
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How to stop Mod4-P from switching the display?
I use Ctrl-P very frequently to scroll backward in the command history, but I often mistype it as Mod4-P, which is bound to the switch display function.
I've searched around Keyboard shortcuts and ...
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Add binding to fish that not auto executes the string?
How do i set up a key binding in fish, so that fish understands not to execute the bindingstring after appending it to commandline but just appending it as string to commandline.
I want to set up a ...
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How do you assign commands to keys in Terminal?
Is there a solution to assign special key combinations to words in terminal use.
For example the less command is very usefull and i use i a lot to pipe the output of another process through it.
The ...
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How can I make a shortcut key to disable the mouse pad?
I have a dm3t laptop and when im using the keyboard I frequently accidentally touch it and cause some mouse event. How can I make a shortcut key that toggles the mousepad on and off?
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How to get back the brightness-notification when changing brightness via hotkeys?
Some Ubuntu-versions ago, there was a Popup that showed up while changing the brightness on my Asus V6V with FN+Key. It has been gone since (I guess) 9.04. When changing the Audio-Volume, I still have ...
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Binding mouse buttons to copy and paste
Often I'm copying and pasting pieces of text. I'd like to streamline the process.
Anyone know if it possible to bind (for example):
Ctrl Right Click to Copy
and
Alt Right Click to Paste
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Moving windows from the keyboard
Is it possible to move windows from the keyboard itself without touching the mouse?
I know I can do a Alt + Left Click and drag the window, however I am hoping there is something I can use to move it ...
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An alternative to the Super key on an old keyboard
I've got a classic M-series IBM keyboard that I want to put to a use. However, it does not have a Windows (a.k.a Super) key, that I use for many windows-manager-related shortcuts. On top of it, I ...
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Is it possible to setup a shortcut for enable/disable wifi?
Is it possible to setup a shortcut for enable/disable wifi?
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How to assign the ' Web Browser Shortcut' to Synapse?
My laptop has three extra keys, For Opening Mail client, Web browser and one other.
I dont use them, so I want to assign the the web browser key to open synapse, currently I use Super+Space to open ...
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How can I restore default keyboard shortcuts?
I have customized some of the shortcuts in System ▸ Preferences ▸ Keyboard Shortcuts.
How can I restore individual shortcuts to their default settings? I do not want to reset all of the shortcuts, ...
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ALT + F2 not behaving correctly
Recently my Alt + F2 keyboard shortcut switches my Linux machine to a virtual terminal rather than displaying the run window. I haven't made any specific keyboard changes that could of caused this ...
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How to fix boot message [RAID partition] not ready yet? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
mdadm: breaks boot due to “is not ready yet or not present” error
I've got a RAID 5 setup for my /home partition. Every two to three boots my hdisks don't ...
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Quick way to temporarily disable compiz and gnome shortcuts
Compiz and Gnome have many keyboard shortcuts. Examples are Ctrl+Alt+L for locking the session or Ctrl+Alt+Arrows for switching workspaces. Often they overwrite shortcuts in applications. It would be ...
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Map caps-lock key to middle mouse click
Since I rarely use caps-lock, I'd like to map the key to a middle mouse click instead. I would also like to map Alt+Caps Lock to the original function of the caps lock key, should I ever need it.
I ...
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How do I configure keyboard commands?
In Windows I never turn my NumLock on. I navigate through the page line with Home and End, and when I want to mark a line I use them in a combination with the Shift key. Pretty basic stuff right? Well ...
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How do I bind .sh files to keyboard combination?
Just wondering; how do I bind .sh files to run when I press a particular key combination? (like Alt+S)
Thanks,
Dante
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how to change virtualbox keyboard shortcut
In virtualbox ctrl-r is the shortcut to reset the virtual machine. But I use it for testing web-sites on IE, and I seem to be hard-wired to use ctrl-r to refresh web-pages in a browser. I keep ...
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How to set global hotkeys for Rhythmbox?
I would like to bind F1 to play/pause and F2 to next song globally
how to do it?
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Is there a keybind to minimize all windows, without a toggle?
I know about the show desktop keybind (default Ctrl+Alt+D), which I use often enough. However, I'm looking for a way to minimize all windows without activating "show desktop".
I'm on a default ...
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Enable keyboard media keys
I have one of those fancy keyboards with the extra media keys. For years, I more or less ignored them. Then my work got my a MacBook, and behold, I got spoiled. Now I want them to work when I'm ...
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Ctrl+T doesn't create a new tab anymore
Pretty new to Ubuntu, I tried to change some keyboard shortcut.
So I assigned under the System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts Ctrl+T to an operation.
Then I realised that with chrome Ctrl+T was ...
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Is there a keyboard shortcut to open the Indicator Applet?
How can I get here using keyboard shortcuts?
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Map keyboard arrows to shortcuts
I type with all ten fingers so I'm using Alt + H(J,K,L) shortcuts in Vim in insert mode to move cursor and it's very cool :) I would like to remap arrow keys in X (Gnome) to use these shortcuts in all ...
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How to define a shortcut key to grab part of the screen?
I've been trying to create a short-cut key for grabbing part of the screen.
If I run the command /usr/bin/gnome-screenshot --area the program I want runs and does what I want. When I createa a custom ...
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Snippits: error while trying to run ks do
I'd quite like to use Snippits, but after I carefully followed these directions:
http://lifehacker.com/351285/automate-repetitive-typing-with-snippits
I tried using the keyboard shortcut I'd ...
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What feature is at play when Ctrl+Shift+Alt+U,E “types” an unprintable hex 000E?
I tend to use Ctrl+Shift+Alt for my customized system-wide keybindings.
When I tried Ctrl+Shift+Alt+U it printed an underscored u and waited for more keyboard input!...
Some keys were accepted and ...
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A simple script. A simple binding. So why isn't it simple?
I've used xbindkeys to associate a hot-key with /usr/bin/test.sh
I can run the script two ways now! (well, not always! hence this question.)
eg. /usr/bin/test.sh contains
#!/bin/sh
gedit
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How to change Shotwell keyboard shortcuts?
I want to edit quickly lots of pictures in Shotwell. It already has some shortcuts, like ] for Rotate. However, I work on a Qwertz keyboard, where ] is typed as AltGr + 9, which means I have to hit ...
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How do I get my clipboard “copy /paste” working again? [closed]
I'm running Ubuntu 9.04, and out of the blue i can no longer use copy/paste key-shortcuts.
I imagine, if i restart my computer i will be able to, but that is rather a pain than an option!
Type ...
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Alt + sysrq + REISUB doesn't reboot my laptop
On occasion my laptop has become stuck so I've used the magic key combination of Alt + SysRq + REISUB to perform a safe reboot. However, it doesn't seem to work for me as when I press the B key to ...
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Disable CTRL+Q in Firefox without keyconfig extension
How do I disable the Ctrl + Q shortcut in Firefox without using the keyconfig extension?
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How can I enable Ctrl+Alt+Backspace?
Ctrl+Alt+← can usually be set to restart X, however I can't find the option to allow this (it is disabled by default).
I have looked in System->Preferences->Keyboard and ...
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How can I make the volume change in smaller increments?
When I press the volume up/down keys on my keyboard, the volume changes too much. How can I make the step size smaller so that I have finer control?
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Problem using “slash character” / key-shortcut
A few hours ago, the only shortcut for the "slash character" fn+0 stopped working in my Ubuntu environment. I know it is not a physical error, because it is still working on my" root user".
What can ...
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How to make keyboard work like OSX System Wide?
I switch back and forth between two computers constantly:
OSX Snow Leopard
Ubuntu 10.10
I'd like to be able to make Ubuntu use the same keyboard shortcuts as OSX System Wide, for the following ...
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Keyboard short-cut to switch to a specific workspace using Ctrl-[1-8] on numeric keypad
I have 8 workspaces in use throughout the day arranged as 2 rows x 4 columns.
Workspaces are numbered logically from 1-4 for the top row left-right, then 5-8 for the next row.
I would like to be ...
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Why does KDE's Konsole not have top-level menu-accelerator keys? Is it a bug? Is there a workaround?
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid (32).
I have installed KDE's Konsole (terminal), as it offers a couple of things I can't currently get in the gnome-terminal.
However there is a fly in the soup... ...
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How to auto-expand ALL sub-directory levels in Nautilus tree view, via the keyboard?
In Nautilus tree-view, pressing * (asterisk) expands the selected directory structure by ONE level.
Pressing * again will expand the structure by one more level.
...etc, etc, untl all levels are ...
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Application launcher that lets me define shortcuts (like DragThing on OS X)
I've just switched to Ubuntu 10.10 from OS X, and the one thing I'm really missing is that I previously had set up a bunch of custom keyboard shortcuts to launch applications. For example, ...
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change my remote controls keys
I have problems changing my remotes keys. The rc has a joystick for controlling the mouse cursor. After connecting the rc to my computer everything works fine, but the shortcuts are made for Windows ...
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Assign shift+tab to the control button on the right?
Is it possible to assign Shift + Tab to the control key on the right?
