Showing posts with label keyboard shortcut. Show all posts
Showing posts with label keyboard shortcut. Show all posts

Saturday, December 6, 2014

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 ShortcutDescription
Super+UpMaximize window
Super+DownUnmaximaze window
Super+Left ArrowFill half to the left side of the screen
Super+Right ArrowFill half to the right side of the screen
Super+click then moveMove window anywhere on screen
Super+mTo bring up a message tray at the bottom of the screen.
alt+tabswitch between applications
alt+`switch through window of current applications.
superbring up a new apperance known as activities overview
drag application to dashthis is to add an application which you used often to the dash so you can easily accessed.
drop application to gridremove application from dash by dragging from dash and then drop into the grid
ctrl+alt+up arrowswitch to the workspace above
type in a file windowTo quickly search for file in the file windows.
alt+PrintScntake a screenshot of the current window only.
shift+PrintScnselect 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.

dconf-editor-remember-nulock-state

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