I have recently installed Ubuntu 11.04 on my laptop and until I got used to Unity I couldn’t find the menu bar for the nautilus window. I found out later that the menu for the application in focus appears in the desktop menu bar. However I urgently needed to find a hidden file and I half remembered that the keyboard shortcut was Control-h. That worked and so I started looking up other keyboard shortcuts and have put them together in a list below. I hope they are useful to someone.
Ctrl+A – Select All
Ctrl+D – Add to Bookmarks
Ctrl+B – Edit Bookmarks
Ctrl+W – Close Window
Ctrl+Q – Close All Windows
Ctrl+R – Reload/Refresh Window
Ctrl+S – Select Items Matching (Enter the pattern)
Ctrl+L – Go To Location Bar
Ctrl+H – Toggle ‘Show Hidden Files’
Ctrl+C – Copy Selected
Ctrl+X – Cut Selected
Ctrl+V – Paste Selected
Ctrl+T – Open New Tab
Ctrl+1 – Icon View
Ctrl+2 – List View
Ctrl+3 – Compact View
Ctrl++ – Zoom In
Ctrl+- – Zoom Out
Ctrl+0 – Reset Zoom Level
Ctrl+Shift+I – Invert Selection
Ctrl+Shift+N – Create New Folder
Ctrl+M – Create Link (Shortcut) [Highlight the file / folder first and then use press Ctrl+M]
Delete – Delete To Trash
Shift+Delete – Delete Permanently
Alt+Enter – Properties
Alt+Up – Open Parent Folder
Alt+Left – Go Back
Alt+Right – Go Forward
Alt+Home – Go To Home Folder
F1 – Open Help
F3 – Toggle Dual Pane Mode
F9 – Toggle Side Panel
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Sunday, 14 August 2011
Ubuntu 11.04. Wrong keyboard keeps reappearing as default
When I installed Ubuntu 11.04 on my laptop there was a problem with selecting a keyboard other than USA. If I selected any other keyboard the installation hung for minutes, so eventually I accepted the USA keyboard thinking I would change it later. Everything installed so I went to System Settings and chose Keyboard in the Control Center and under the Layout tab I removed the USA keyboard and added a German one.
However after every reboot the USA keyboard was back and worse still it was the default, so I had to keep switching back to German. Removing the US keyboard only resulted in it reappearing after a reboot.
Eventually I found the answer. Go to
However after every reboot the USA keyboard was back and worse still it was the default, so I had to keep switching back to German. Removing the US keyboard only resulted in it reappearing after a reboot.
Eventually I found the answer. Go to
/etc/default/keyboard
and change the line XKBLAYOUT="us"
to your desired keyboard and re-boot.XKBMODEL="pc105"
#XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBLAYOUT="de"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""
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