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Quickly Close windows and applications using xkill in Ubuntu

admin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:49:39 +0000

Xkill is a command to kill running windows and applications in ubuntu.Compare to kill,xkill is more convenient that you just need to select the window whose client you wish to kill with left-click.
You can create a keyboard shortcut or shortcut icon for launching xkill.When you press the keyboard shortcut or the shortcut icon,the cursor becomes a cross.Then just left-click on the window you want to kill
1.Create a keyboard shortcut:Go to SYstem->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts.Click Add,type xkill in Command area.Click Apply,then set its shortcut.

2.Create shortcut icon: Right click on panel,and select “Add to panel”.Double click “Custom Application Launcher” and type xkill in Command area.

Enable Ctrl+Alt+Backspace in Ubuntu 9.10(Karmic)

admin — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:29:50 +0000

Enable this keyboard shortcut in ubuntu karmic is very easy!
First,go to System->Preferences->Keyboard.
Select Layouts tab in following window,and click Layout Options.

In this keyboard layout options window,check the checkbox below “Key sequence to kill the X server”

Done.

Frequently-used Bash shell Keyboard shortcuts in Ubuntu

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:28:30 +0000

There are a couple of keyboard shortcuts in Ubuntu shell which will save a lot of time if you are comfortable with them.
Delete

ctrl+d elete the character on the cursor
ctrl + h : Delete the character before the cursor
ctrl + k : Delete the character after the cursor
ctrl + u: Delete all characters before the cursor
ctrl + w : Delete the word before the cursor
ctrl + y: Restore the deleted characters by ctrl+u .
ctrl + ? : Undo the last input
alt + r : Undo the last action
alt + d : Delete the word after the cursor

Move the cursor

ctrl + a : Move the cursor to the beginning of the current line.
ctrl + e : Move the cursor to the end of the current line.
ctrl + left arrow key: Move the cursor to the beginning of last word.
ctrl+ right arrow key: Move the cursor to the end of next word.
ctrl + f :Move the cursor to the end of current word.

Others:

alt + u : Change the current word to capital.
alt + l : Change the current word to small letter.
alt + c : Change the first letter of current word to capital.
ctrl + r : Input keywords and search command in history.
alt + > : back to the last command.
ctrl + l : clear current screen,same to “clear” command
ctrl + o : Run command repeatly.
alt+number : Run command n times.(n is the number)

Frequently-used Keyboard shortcuts in Ubuntu Linux

admin — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:58:55 +0000

There are a couple of frequently-used keyboard shortcuts in Ubuntu.These shortcuts will save you a ton of time if you learn them.

Alt + F1: Open main menu.Use up/down/right/left arrow keys to select in Applications/Places/System.
Alt + F2: Run Application.This will bring up a window,type command to run an application.
Ctrl + Alt + d: This will minimize all windows and apps,and bring you to desktop.
Alt + F9: Minimize the current window.
Alt + F10: Maximize the current window.
Alt + F4: Close the current window.
Print Screen: Make a screenshot of whole screen.
Alt + Print Screen Make a screenshot of current window.
Alt + Tab: Switch in windows.
Ctrl + Alt + left/right arrow keys or Ctrl + Shift + Alt + left/right arrow keys: Switch in workspaces.
superkey+right-click: Zoom in.Press down Ctrl key,and turn the middle-key will also zoom in/out in browsers.
Ctrl+Alt+drag left mouse key: Go round 3D desktop.
Alt + middle-click: Bring up the window below the top window.

Use key combination to Complete the URL typed in firefox address bar

admin — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:28:43 +0000

People always type the whole URL with www. and .com to view a website.In firefox,there’s a way that you can type no all the URL.

For example,if you want to access to www.ubuntuguide.net.You just need type ubuntugide in address bar and press Shift +enter key combination,next you’ll get the page.

And if you press Ctrl+Enter in first screen,you’ll go to www.ubuntuguide.com.

Press Ctrl+Shift+enter to access www.ubuntuguide.org if there is.

If add Alt to any of those key combinations,it will openup as a new tab.

Enable Ctrl+Alt+Backspace shortcut key in ubuntu 9.04

admin — Fri, 29 May 2009 03:20:57 +0000

In early versions of ubuntu,the key combination Ctrl+Alt+Backspace used to restart X by default,but this is disabled in the version of ubuntu 9.04 but you can hit right Alt+PrintScreen+K instead. If you’re used to use Ctrl+Alt+Backspace and you want to enable it,this tutorial may help you.

First,you need to install a program just by running following command in a terminal window:

sudo apt-get install dontzap

then run following and re-login your ubuntu,the key combination will be enabled:

sudo dontzap --disable

and if you want to disable it again,just run the following code and then re-login:

sudo dontzap --enable

Done.

Assign Custom keyboard shortcuts on ubuntu

admin — Thu, 14 May 2009 07:35:26 +0000

Ubuntu has a limited shortcut key built-in utility at System–>Preferences–>Keyboard Shortcuts,but you can’t assign hotkeys to your own applications with it,in the tutorial you can do it with gconf-editor utility.

First,open up configuration editor by press ALT+ F2 key combination and type gconf-editor,then click Run

At following screen scroll down to apps–>metacity–>keybinding_commands,and double click on command_1 at right side,then in Value field enter the path to your script or executable you are trying to run.

Now,click on global_keybindings above keybinding_command at left side ,at right side double click on run_command1 and enter the shortcut key.W in followings screen means ALT+W key combination,type X for ctrl+alt+X key combination and so forth.

Keyboard shortcuts to launch Terminal in ubuntu

admin — Mon, 11 May 2009 02:21:12 +0000

We use terminal so frequently since we spend so much time at command line.It seems preferable to launch a new terminal window with a shortcut key.
In ubuntu , there is a built-in utility at System–>Preferences–>Keyboard Shortcuts for distributing shortcut keys.

Open it up and scroll down to find where it says “Run a terminal”,click on it and next keystroke you use will set the shortcut key.Since then you can press the key combination to open up a new terminal window.

Done.