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Mozilla successfully launched FireFox 4 about a month ago. It brought a lot of new features like multi-touch support, enhanced HTML 5 support and new cool add-on manager. It was a complete success in the world of browsers. Along with its awesome features, it also brought couple of new buttons and shortcuts. Here is the list of all the new shortcuts and buttons of FireFox 4. [click to continue…]
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Ubuntu has made life really easy for Linux users. I decided to make your experience with Ubuntu Linux much more easier with the 40 keyboard hotkeys / shortcuts as found in Ubuntu Linux. The question is who will remember them? Trust me if you use them, it will really increase your speed and hence save a lot of time so i suggest you give it a try as it is worth it.
1) Ctrl+A = Select all (In Documents, Firefox, Nautilus, etc, not Terminal)
2) Ctrl+C = Copy (In Documents, Firefox, Nautilus, etc, not Terminal)
3) Ctrl+V = Paste (In Documents, Firefox, Nautilus, etc, not Terminal)
4) Ctrl+N = New (Create a new document, not in terminal)
5) Ctrl+O = Open (Open a document, not in terminal)
6) Ctrl+S = Save (Save the current document, not in terminal)
7) Ctrl+P = Print (Print the current document, not in terminal)
8 ) Ctrl+E = Send To… (Send the current document to an email recipient or remote location, not in terminal)
9) Ctrl+W = Close (Close the current document, not in terminal)
10) Ctrl+Q = Quit (Quit the application, not in terminal)
11) Ctrl + Alt + F1 = Switch to the first virtual terminal
12) Ctrl + Alt + F2(F3)(F4)(F5)(F6) = Select the different virtual terminals
13) Ctrl + Alt + F7 = Switch to current terminal session with X
14) Ctrl+Alt++ = Switch to next X resolution (Depends of your X configuration)
15) Ctrl+Alt+- = Switch to previous X resolution (Depends of your X configuration)
16) Ctrl + Alt + Backspace = Kill X server
17) Alt+Tab = Switch between open programs
18 ) Alt+ F1 = Open the Applications Menu
19 ) Ctrl+Alt+tab = Navigate through running programs
20 ) Printscrn = PrintScreen
21) Ctrl+C = (when used inside terminal) Kill process
22) Ctrl + F10 = Open the desktop background menu. All other applications will be minimized.
23) Ctrl+Z = (when used inside terminal) Send process to background
24) Ctrl+D = Log out from the current terminal. In X, this may log you out after a shutting down the emulator.
25) Ctrl+A = Home (Move cursor to beginning of line)
26) F2 = Rename the focused object in desktop
27) Ctrl+E = End (Move cursor to end of line)
28) Tab = List available commands from typed letters (Ex: type iw and click tab, output = iwconfig iwevent iwgetid iwlist iwpriv iwspy)
29) Ctrl+U = Delete current line
30) Ctrl+K = Delete current line from cursor
31) Ctrl + Alt + L = To Lock screen
32) Ctrl+W = (when used inside terminal) Delete word before cursor in terminal
33 ) Arrows up and down = Browse command history
34) Ctrl+R = History search (Finds the last command matching the letters you type)
35) Alt + F2 = Open Run Application box
36) Alt + F5 = Minimize the maximized window
37) Shift+PageUp / PageDown = Scroll terminal output
38) Ctrl+L = Clears terminal output
39) Shift+insert = Paste
40) Mousewheel click or 3rd mouse button = Paste selected text (Select any text in any window and paste where you want. Terminal / Firefox / Gnome apps)
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