General Shortcut Keys
Alt + F1
Opens the Applicantions Menu .
Window Shortcut Keys
Alt + Tab
Switches between windows. When you use these shortcut keys, a list of windows that you can select is displayed. Release the keys to select a window.
Panel Shortcut Keys
Ctrl + Alt + Tab
Switches the focus between the panels and the desktop. [...]
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Below are some handy keyboard shortcuts for the Gnome desktop system. Use these and give your mouse a rest!
Alt + F1
Opens the Applications Menu
Alt + F2
Displays the Run Application dialog
Print Screen
Takes a screenshot
Alt + Print Screen
Takes a screenshot of the window that has focus
Ctrl + Alt + right arrow
Switches to the workspace to the right [...]
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rdesktop is a Remote Desktop Protocol client for linux - it enables you to remote desktop to a Windows machine.
It was difficult to find the keyboard shortcut for switching rdesktop in and out of fullscreen mode so I’m blogging this here so that others may find it (and to remind myself as I’m bound to [...]
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If you are dual-booting Ubuntu with Windows you will have a bootmenu that allows you to select between the two systems.
When you first install Ubuntu you only have 3 options: Ubuntu <version x>, Ubuntu mem test and Windows XP/Vista/whatever.
Over time, when you upgrade Ubuntu, you can start to get multiple copies of the Ubuntu and [...]
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The Ubuntu team have announced that the release to follow Gutsy Gibbon (v7.10) is Hardy Heron (v8.04). Gutsy is due for release in October 2007 and Hardy is pencilled in for April 2008.
The Heron release will also include Long Term Support (LTS) - this guarantees security updates for the server version for 5 years after [...]
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