Ubuntu Tutorials

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KeyboardShortcuts of course

In nautilus, there is also

Shift-Del

if you want to delete the file immedately, without having to move it to the Trash

Ctrl+Alt+Backspace : Restart Gnome (careful)

It would be better if you mentioned that it restarts X. AFAIK, this works irrespective of the window manager.

You can add :

Ctrl+Alt+d : minimize all windows

useful if you have too many windows open and want to look at something cleaner

one more shortcut,

shift+delete

will delete a file permanently and bypass the trash.. Be sure you no longer want it tho.

hello,

how to disable shift+delete

thanks
ronny

ctrl + h

to show/hide hidden folders

how can i add a new keyboard shortcut in ubuntu 8.04

@DIVZ. Go to System->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts. It will allow you to add/change/remove shortcuts.

How to centre align by shortcut key in spreadsheet

ctrl + t for a new tab
backspace to return to parent foler
shift left/right to collapse/expand folders in list view
F6 switch focus between the side pane and the view pane.

switching between tabs is harder… if anyone knows a better shortcut key, i would really appreciate it!
while in the view pane (and while using mulitple tabs) press shift tab one or twice untill you see the tab is selected, then press left or right.
to go from the selected tab to the contents of that tab, press tab once or twice

ok, i just found the shortcut keys for navigating tabs!!
it's ctrl+alt+pageup or pagedown

Thanks!

Manuel said:
“ok, i just found the shortcut keys for navigating tabs!!
it’s ctrl+alt+pageup or pagedown”

For me just ctl+PgUp/PgDwn does the trick, no need for an alt in there.

Two more mouseless tricks:

1) Select non-adjacent files:
hold ctl and navigate up or down and use space to select multiple files (toggles select/deselect).

2) Select adjacent files:
hold shift and navigate up/down (PgUp/PgDwn works by pagefulls too)

One shortcut I can’t find:
open nautilus directly from the keyboard

im looking for the same shortcut Paulo… somebody know how to do that??

@Paulo:
go to System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts, select “Launch home directory”, you can assign +e or anything you want…

i hope it be useful
and sorry for my bad english…

How are you able to scroll through the options at the top? (Applications | Places | System | etc )

@ website consultants
Alt+F1 is the default shortcut to access the Application menu. Then you can use the arrows keys to move inside or between the menus.

pressing “ctrl+L” open address bar in text mode.
pressing “Esc” go back address bar to buttons mode.

I’m trying to figure out why Gnome/KDE in Ubuntu 10.04 grabs the Mod4+S (and Mod4+M) key sequence and how I could remove them from the global configuration.

how do u maximize a minimized window

n creating a new tab

You can also define your own keyboard shortcuts in Nautilus using extensions API as described here: http://zverovich.net/2011/02/user-defined-keyboard-shortcuts-in-nautilus/

Please help me with an advice on how to toggle/switch the current language keyboard. I have English and Romanian and I toggle between them often. In Windows it was Alt+Shift. Is there any keys combination in Gnome for this?

Thanks a lot.

@ MAS Actually Ctrl-Alt-Backspace kills X server – the reason GDM is restarted (not GNOME, although GDM is “GNOME Display Manager”, but like kdm and xdm they are just programs to graphically login into Desktop or plain Window Manager – you can set GDM to provide menu for KDE, Fluxbox and Ion,or even just Ion.

GDM runs X server too, though it runs it with root privileges – however the combination works there too as it is running on X.

Maybe I’m nitpicking, but I just wanted to clarify that it’s X it shuts down, and naturally any programs, including GNOME or other DE or WM as they are just programs too. GDM resurrects, but if you started your X session other way than GDM/KDM/XDM/etc. it would not resurrect, just shut down to text console – so the important point here is that it is not a restart for GUI, it’s a force-kill switch for X – and it’s good to know.

I for one like dual panes for file management as in Gnome commander and midnight commander. I am missing the F3 function key that actually opens a second window pane in Nautilus. I think that should be listed here.

how do you maximize a minimized window?

Nice post, thanks.

Is there a shortcut to copy file from one pane to another?

Why do all DE’s (I would think Enlightenment DR17 would not, bun who knows) move away from old way all WM’s, except really unusual ones like Ion that I love, keep supporting but for some reason DE’s all suddenly have the idea that there must be other uses for them.

I mean Alt-F1 to at least Alt-F4 to switch to workspace, it was really logical, it was easy to remember and most of all, moving from another OS that did not make you feel that why are these keys assigned to this functionality… Because they were not assigned by desktop of non *nix-likes to anything important,

Now on one of them to get into workspace one you press Ctrl-Alt-F1, another might use shift instead of Ctrl or Alt, etc. and alt-F3 launches run-diialog – except in xfce4 where it’s opened with Alt-F2. INSANE!

And I like two-pane ones too… And ones that come with DE’s have not felt as good as some others so I have ended with two, in text mode or terminal windfow I use mc /Midnight Commander), but if on X I *really* prefer worker, looks uglier but it’s almost as customizable as eMacs – and without even add-on script language support