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February 21, 2023

List of keyboard shortcuts

Filed under: Computers — admin @ 2:26 pm

Here are some keyboard shortcuts that i used to use

– in the linux shell, type the beginning of a command that you usually use and press two times on the tab key, the way to let it guess what should follow or to get choices between several possibilities

– shift+fn and key up or down to scroll the text rapidly in the shell

– ctrl+shift and key up or down to scroll the text slowly in the shell

– fn and key up or down in the vi or nano editor to scroll the text faster

– ctrl+d in the web browser to bookmark the page

– alt+tab to switch between opened applications

– ctrl+c to terminate a console program

– under Linux : ctrl+alt+backspace to close the active session (useful in case of blocking)

– under Linux : hold alt+left click on the inside of a Windows and move it

– key “F2” to rename a file in the file explorer

– ctrl+a to select all files or all text

– ctrl+c to copy the selection

– ctrl+v to paste the selection

– ctrl+x to cut the selection

– ctrl+t to open a new tab in the web browser

– alt+f4 to close a window

– key up or down in the shell to recover commands done previously

– backspace in the file explorer to go back to the parent directory or to go back to the previous page in the web browser

– the vi editor under Linux is a bit complicated to use. Here are some tips :
Press the “a” key to begin to type your text and press ecape when you have finished the typing
Type : “/mysearch” and press enter to search for “mysearch” in the file, then press “n” to go to the next occurrence and shift+n to go to the previous occurrence.
Exit the typing (escape) and press two times on “d” to delete an entire line.
Type “:q” and press enter to quit or “:q!” to quit without saving the changes. Type “:wq” to save and quit the file.

– in notepad, gedit, web browsers or all other text editors : ctrl+f to search for a string

– only in notepad, Windows editors and web browsers under Windows or Linux : after a string search press “F3” to go to the next occurrence.

– in majority of editors press ctrl+s to save changes

– Using keyboard shortcuts for copy pasting in the terminal. On Ubuntu and many other Linux distributions, you can use Ctrl+Insert or Ctrl+shift+C for copying text and Shift+Insert or Ctrl+shift+V for pasting text in the terminal.
Ctrl+Insert to copy and shift+insert to paste text in the shell or in vi, nano or in all other shell editor

– in the shell : double click on a word, then right click on it and copy to copy the text

– ctrl+alt+l to lock the current session

– ctrl+alt+t to run the linux terminal

– set focus to the url bar in your webbrowser: alt+d

– exit session from command line: ctrl+alt+t then gnome-session-quit

– shift+page up or shift+page down to scroll the text in the terminal

– Create Symlink in Linux
To create a symlink without a terminal, just hold Shift+Ctrl and drag the file or folder you want to link to to the location where you want the shortcut.

– type “whereis myfile” in the terminal where myfile is the file you are looking for

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