keyboard shortcuts
necessities
Learn these puppies to easily breeze through applications in the moment of the thought.
launchers
- open a new terminal emulator: Ctrl+Alt+T
- open a new default browser window: Ctrl+Alt+I
- open a new default files explorer: Ctrl+Alt+F
- bring forward koad:io controller: Ctrl+Alt+Space
- open the application drawer: Super+A
workspace management
move entire- workspace up/down one workspace (reorder) from within the overview menu
- down: Alt+Up
- up: Alt+Down
bring focus up/down one workspace
- down: Ctrl+Alt+Up
- up: Ctrl+Alt+Down
and bring the current app with you by adding Shift
- down: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Up
- up: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Down
move the currently focused application to different workspace/sidecar
- to monitor left: Super+Shift+Left
- to monitor right: Super+Shift+Right
change the label of the currently focused workspace
- bring forward koad:io controller: Ctrl+Alt+Space
- press L for
label
more, other..
close
- bring open the dialog: Ctrl+Alt+Del
- close the current window: Alt+F4
- close the current tab: Ctrl+F4
screenshots
- of entire desktop: Print
- of a window: Alt+Print
- of a region: Shift+Print
- and paste in a clipboard: Ctrl+Print
- of a window and paste in a clipboard: Ctrl+Alt+Print
- of a region and paste in a clipboard: Ctrl+Shift+Print
- video capture desktop: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+R
navigating the open applications
| Behavior/Action | Gnome |
|---|---|
| Switch to next application | Super+Tab |
| Switch to previous application | Super+Shift+Tab |
| Switch to next window | |
| Switch to previous window | |
| Switch to next window of the current application | ++super+<key above tab> |
| Switch to previous window of the current application | ++super+shift+<++;key above tab> |
from within an application
| Behavior/Action | key combo |
|---|---|
| Close Active Window | Alt+F4, Ctrl+W, Super+W |
| Quit Application | Ctrl+Q |
| Gear Menu | F10 |
| Switch to next tab | Ctrl+Tab |
| Switch to previous tab | Ctrl+Shift+Tab |
more, other..
| Behavior/Action | key combo |
|---|---|
| Hush Mode (set busy) | |
| Log Out | |
| Lock screen | ++super+L, ScreenSaver key (++fn-f2++) |
| Run Console | Alt+F2 |
| Toggle Zoom | Alt+Super+8 |
| Toggle Screen Reader | Alt+Super+S |
| Enter overview | Super, Super+S |
| Window modifier | Super |
| Access Application Menu | Super+F10 |
| Switch focus in overview | Tab |
| Toggle maximized/windowed | Super+Up / Super+Down |
| Toggle tiled left | Super+Left |
| Toggle tiled right | Super+Right |
| Minimize window | Super+H, Alt+F9 |
| Switch to next workspace | ++super+pg-down++ |
| Switch to previous workspace | Super+Page Up |
| Switch to first workspace | Super+Home |
| Switch to last workspace | Super+End |
| Switch input source | Super+Space |
| Toggle Message Tray | Super+M |
| Expand a notification and give it keyboard focus | Super+N |
caveats
The primary system modifier key should be
Find a possible work around for non-existent keys like PrnScr, !Meta/!Super.