Gnome goodies: common keyboard shortcut. Remembering state of num lock.

If you have been using linux and there is a key on your keyboard with windows logo, it is known as Super key. This super key will be widely used in gnome 3. Today, we will learn some of the commonly used keyboard shortcut. You can also find other keyboard shortcut in gnome-control-center keyboard shortcut.

Keyboard Shortcut	Description
Super+Up	Maximize window
Super+Down	Unmaximaze window
Super+Left Arrow	Fill half to the left side of the screen
Super+Right Arrow	Fill half to the right side of the screen
Super+click then move	Move window anywhere on screen
Super+m	To bring up a message tray at the bottom of the screen.
alt+tab	switch between applications
alt+`	switch through window of current applications.
super	bring up a new apperance known as activities overview
drag application to dash	this is to add an application which you used often to the dash so you can easily accessed.
drop application to grid	remove application from dash by dragging from dash and then drop into the grid
ctrl+alt+up arrow	switch to the workspace above
type in a file window	To quickly search for file in the file windows.
alt+PrintScn	take a screenshot of the current window only.
shift+PrintScn	select a specific area of the screen.

Not sure why each time of operating system reboot, the state of num lock on keyboard get forgotten. This is really quite puzzling considering gnome has been evolve for so many cycle. But that's okay, we will learn to configure gnome so that it will remember the state of num lock between system boot. Let's launch dconf-editor and expand in the tree in such path. org -> gnome -> settings-daemon -> peripherals -> keyboard. Check remember-numlock-state and check the screenshot below.



With this article, I hope you navigate better in gnome-shell environment.