Gnome Shortcut Cribsheet

Created by: Graham Ovenden, Last modification: 29 November 2018

Over the last few updates to my Gnome3 powered desktop a number of useful functions have disapeared from the menus. Personally I don't find these removals at all useful even if there is a hot key alternative and the latest change to the Nautilus menu left me strugling to find simple notes that even documented the replacement. I use 'show location' quite extensively to navigate around multiple machines on the network and it's stripping left me stummped. I'd forgotten that Ctrl+L does the same thing, but often I don't need to switch to keyboard mode! Just need the text view of the path and machine connection. So I've started my own crib sheet ...

File Manager Nautilus

Ctrl+L - Display breadcrumb path as text
Ctrl+H - display hidden files ( toggles every Nautilus window :( )

kWrite

F11 - Line numbers

Navigation

Super - open the Activities Overview
Alt+F2 - Command Prompt
Super+F10 - Open application menu
Super+M - Open Message Tray
Ctrl+Alt+Up - switch to the workspace above
Ctrl+Alt+Down - switch to the workspace below

Launch application

Hold the Ctrl key and click on an application icon to launch a new window
Middle click on an application to launch in a new workspace
Right click on the application to access a context menu, with options for selecting a specific window or opening a new one

Screenshot

Alt+PrintScn - take a screenshot of the current window only
Shift+PrintScn - select a specific area of the screen
Ctrl+PrintScn - save the screenshot to the clipboard
Alt+Ctrl+PrintScn - save a screenshot of the current window to the clipboard.