Questions about keyboard shortcuts: both which ones to use and how to create custom shortcuts.
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How can I change what keys on my keyboard do? (How can I create custom keyboard commands/shortcuts?)
I want to change the key bindings on some of the keys on my keyboard. I want some to run commands and others to activate different keys.
What applications can I use to do this?
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Bind Super + Numpad 4 [duplicate]
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 and would like to rebind Super + Num4 to "Put window on the left side of the screen"
Based upon this question, I was able to setup my binding using the CompizConf Grid ...
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Clipboard manager with “history paste” support?
I am looking for a clipboard manager, but I don't want one that just keeps a list so I can select an item to bring it to the front of the clipboard, nah, that's too easy.
What I am looking for is a ...
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How to modify which keys make the grub menu appear
Sometime I need to access grub. I have the timeout to 0 but I can still call the grub menu by pressing ESC or leaving SHIFT pressed. What I want is to change that so for example, to get the grub menu ...
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How do I switch between Kwin Window tabs?
How do you switch tabs when you attach a window as the tab of another? I wasn't able to find the corresponding KWin shortcuts to modify. I have realized that scrolling over the titlebar works, but is ...
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How to make Shutter as the default screenshot tool?
I have shutter 0.90 on my Ubuntu 12.04 machine (installed via PPA). I would like to use it as my default screenshot tool with the Print shortcut key. But I can't find the option in Shutter. It should ...
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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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How do I change the copy and paste keyboard shortcuts on Lubuntu 12.10?
I have Lubuntu 12.10 installed on my macbook pro and I am new to linux. I want to change the Lubuntu keyboard shortcuts for copying and pasting. I want to change Ctrl+C to Cmd+C and to change Ctrl+V ...
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bind ctrl+arrows to Home, End. xmodmap does not work
I'm on Ubuntu 12.04.
On windows I used to bind CTRL + Left to Home and Ctrl + Right to End via ahk.
Now I'm struggling to achieve this behavior in Ubuntu.
I've tried editing /etc/inputrc:
"\e[1;5C": ...
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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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Stop Ubuntu keyboard shortcuts from “resurrecting”
I use a good deal of the default Ubuntu shortcuts as shortcuts in Emacs (Alt-Space being the most important). I obviously have disabled these shortcuts in the keyboard shortcuts dialog, but for ...
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Remap shortcut to a single key cannot be used
I want to remap my workspace switcher shortcut to a single key, specifically the Page Up/Page Down keys for going to the top/bottom workspace. But Ubuntu will not let me do this using System settings ...
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Re-map 'Super' key to launch an app
how could I re-map the 'Super' (left) key to launch an app? I want to launch Synapse with it, which is far more responsive than the Unity launcher. Cheers.
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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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Keyboard shortcut reset every other reboot
I'm all for using default shortcuts for basic task — you'll avoid conflict and know the default keys when using another Ubuntu computer.
One exception is the minimize window keyboard shortcut: ...
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How can i change navigation keys for results produced by HUD
Once the HUD is invoked how I can remap keys for navigating through its results?
For example, ctrl + j for go down and ctrl + k for go up.
Thanks in advance.
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xubuntu 12.10 how do shortcuts (technically) trigger actions. Trying to debug shortcut randomly stop working
Keyboard shortcuts randomly stops working, it appears to primarily affect shortcuts involving the Alt-key.
I have seen this issue in 12.04 as well. I'm now trying to research the issue in more ...
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Fn + numpad not working on XPS M1530
I have a Dell XPS M1530 with Xubuntu 12.10. My Fn + Up Arrow and Down Arrow for adjusting screen brightness work perfectly fine, but using the Fn key with the function numpad does not work. These used ...
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Problem with remapped key when changing between languages
I've remapped a certain key (` to w) with this way:
xmodmap -e "keycode 49 = w"
I use Greek language, not only English and I change between languages with ALT+SHIFT. When I turn the keyboard ...
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How to emulate the super key?
I use an extremely old retro-keyboard.... " TVS 101.PC-XT"
This keyboard has only 101 keys (AlphaNumeric, NumPad, FunctionKeys);
And I don't intent to change it for I am very comfortable with it !
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Keyboard shortcut for Gnome-Terminal profile change?
I have two profiles in my Gnome Terminal, one uses specific image for background. Would like to switch between them when I enter/exit Vim.
So far, I do this by Alt+t and navigating to the other ...
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How do I open the Application Launcher on KDE with just the meta (“Windows”) key?
How do I open the application launcher ("start menu") of Kubuntu with my Windows key? Similar to how the Start menu in Windows is opened. I don't want to use Alt+F1.
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Re-map Alt+drag in Unity. I need it for Inkscape
I need Alt+drag for some of Inkscape function, instead of just draggin my current window, how do I re-map "drag window" key to another shorcut?
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How do the keyboard shortcuts for Ubuntu (with Unity) compare to those of Windows?
Until today, I was using Windows. Now I have migrated to Ubuntu 12.10.
What are the keyboard shortcuts for basic commands like copy, cut and paste? How do they differ from Windows?
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How to unassign Alt key from window context menu in GNOME
When I use GNOME Shell, and GNOME Connectin Manager program, and trying Alt+S in MidnightCommander (all inside GNOME Connection Manager), I get window context menu opened, instead of "search action" ...
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Emacs-like keybindings system-wide?
Is there a way to set Emacs-like keyboard shortcuts (at least the subset mentioned below) for the whole OS? This is possible in some apps such as the terminal, Emacs (go figure :) and additionally ...
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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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ccsm fails to disable Super key
The solution given in How do I disable the Super key? does not work, for me at least.
Specifically, changing the setting for Key to show the launcher from Super to Alt via ccsm has no apparent effect ...
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workspace selector + mission control
Is it possible to have something like the mac's mission control but working for all the workspaces? I mean: right now I can choose the workspace with <super>s and the windows inside a given ...
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Ctrl + Shift + Del key combination not working in Chromium's New Tab page [closed]
The default key combination for clearing browsing data in Chromium (Ctrl+⇧Shift+Del) isn't working when the New Tab page is open and in focus: I press the keys and nothing happens.
If I click the ...
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“ctrl+space” has been bound to invoke some input method and does not work in Emacs
In Emacs run in terminal, ctrl+space is a standard shortcut key to select region. But under Ubuntu 12.04, it will invoke some input method for non-English language. I was wondering if I can reserve it ...
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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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Geany - what's the shortcut for inserting curly brackets?
As it is written above. I came across that shortcut a few times but unfortunately I can't recall it because I found it not very useful. Now I've changed my mind and I was searching through web but ...
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“Wireless disabled by hardware switch” after suspend and other hardware buttons ineffective - how can I solve this?
I have recently purchased a Novatech nFinity N1410 laptop and am having problems with the wireless, which
sudo lshw -C network
tells me is Centrino Wireless-N 2230 and using the iwlwifi driver.
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What commands will change my screen's brightness?
I'm trying to re-keybind some of my function keys as I never use them for multimedia purposes, however I'm not sure as to what command I'd need to put it to increase/reduce the brightness, I'm talking ...
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How to toggle wireless using a script
My laptop comes with the option to toggle wireless with the Fn+F12 key, but unfortunately this key doesn't work. Now inspired by this question, I would like to write a script that can toggle the ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Keyboard Shortcut without use of modifier key
Currently it seems you cannot enter keyboard shortcut combinations without the use of a modifier key. Is there any way to circumvent this, ie. a configuration file that I could manually enter these ...
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Why does my custom shortcut reappear unexpectedly?
I created a custom shortcut Ctrl+Alt+T that calls x-terminal-emulator. For some reason, it does not work (nothing happens when hitting the mapping).
When I remove the shortcut, the built-in Launch ...
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ctrl+alt+t random terminal opens
When I need to open a terminal I press CTRL+ALT+T to save time. Most of the time absolutely nothing happens, I try to press same combination again, and still nothing happens. After like 5-8 tries ...
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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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Is there a shortcut to restore desktop focus?
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I've recently started using Unity on Ubuntu 12.04 and I'm getting used to it. But, whenever I start a program and then exit the program I must click on the desktop, ...
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Problem binding a shortcut to a function / multimedia key
I want to connect a batch script to a shortcut. When I bind it under System Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts it works with every key, except my brightness keys from my external Apple keyboard.
The ...
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How can I restore default keyboard shortcuts in 12.10? [duplicate]
This question has been asked already, but it doesn't seem to apply to Ubuntu 12.10. The file formats of /usr/share/gnome-control-center/keybindings/ has changed.
I tried the script someone kindly ...
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What is the command to put the current window in half the screen
I want to put the current, active window on one side of the screen. Then ideally I could put one window on the left half, and one window on the right half.
On windows the keyboard shortcut (the only ...
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Can I write keyboard shortcut in bash script?
Can I write keyboard shortcut in bash script like:
#!bin/bash
echo Hello
^z # this is kbd shortcut
This didn't work. Is there any other way?
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Keyboard shortcuts do not work after reboot
In my Ubuntu 12.04 installation the media keyboard shortcuts do not work after reboot. The shortcuts are still saved and visible in the control pane, but no action is performed when using those ...
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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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F? (f.e. F8) shortcuts not working in geany
I'd like to ask for tips why shortucts f.e. for build F9 or compile F8 are not working in Geany text editor.
I tried to assign different shortcuts including Ctrl+F8 or Ctrl+Shift+B and none of them ...
