Re: [Usability] Keyboard shortcuts

[Nigel Tao <nigel tao myrealbox com>]

On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 23:39 -0700, Corey Burger wrote:
> As a recovering Windows admin, I miss a few keyboard commands from
> windows. These commands all use the windows key. They are:
> 
> WK + D = show desktop
> WK + L = Lock screen
> WK + E = Show file manager
> WK + F = open find command
> WK + R = open run command (alt-f2 equiv)
> 
> Are there rational reasons that these would not be a useful thing to
> have? My only thought was with other hardware platforms.

<Ctrl><Alt>D is the show desktop equivalent, and the others are all
do-able (but they are not there by default).  Instructions can be found
at http://live.gnome.org/PowerUserTools

You will have to look up the appropriate command to invoke.  For
example, the equivalent of "find command" is "gnome-search-tool" (or
look at Beagle).  File manager is "nautilus", and I can't remember what
the "lock screen" command is.  If you find out, you may want to add it
to the wiki.

IIRC, older keyboards, and some laptops (Thinkpads?), don't have the Win
key, so it's not mapped to anything by default.  And it may be mapped
simply as a key (like "Space Bar" is a key) rather than a modifier (like
"Ctrl" is a modifier - by itself it doesn't trigger anything), so you
may not be able to map WinKey-D to show desktop.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165343

Nigel.