I couldn’t find much information about keyboard shortcuts for Compiz effects in Ubuntu 10.04. I poked through the default Compiz configuration and found some I didn’t know about, and some that have changed from previous versions of Ubuntu.
Some of the following keyboard shortcuts will not work at all if Compiz (visual effects) if turned off.
Workspaces
- Ctrl + Alt + Left/Right/Up/Down arrow – move to the workspace in the given direction
- Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Left/Right arrow – move the current window to the workspace in the given direction
- Super + E - “expo” effect, shows all workspaces (move windows with left mouse button, zoom to a workspace with right mouse button)
Window Management
- Super + W – “scale” effect, shows all windows in current workspace (left click selects window, middle click closes window, right click zooms window)
- Super + A – “scale” effect, shows all windows
- Alt + F10 – toggle maximize current window
- Alt + F9 – minimize current window
- Ctrl + Alt + D – toggle show desktop
- Alt + Middle mouse button – resize window
- Alt + Left mouse button – move window
- Alt + Right mouse button – window menu
- Alt + F7 – move current window (without holding down mouse button)
- Alt + F8 – resize current window (without holding down mouse button)
- Alt + Tab – switch windows on current workspace
- Ctrl + Alt + Tab – switch windows on all workspaces
Accessibility
- Super + Mouse wheel scroll – zoom screen
- Super + Middle mouse button – draw rectangle to zoom to
- Super + N – invert colours of current window
- Super + M – invert colours of screen (Compiz is configured for this shortcut, but the messaging indicator seems to have taken it over so it doesn’t work)
Ubuntu Community Documentation has more on keyboard shortcuts (although some of it is outdated now for Ubuntu 10.04). You can view and change some shortcuts using System->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts.
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Installing compizconfig settings manager lets you enable/disable the various plugins (desktop zoom, for example) and change ALL of the keybindings.
“Ubuntu Community Documentation has more on keyboard shortcuts (although some of it is outdated now for Ubuntu 10.04)”
It *is* a wiki!
If it’s inaccurate, not up to date or in any way less than you expect then you can just logon and click “edit” to make it better.
The documentation you refer to is a wiki. Why not login and edit it with the changes you have described, instead of blogging about it in a non-centralised place that is completely unhelpful to Ubuntu users?
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I had a command set up to run a gnome-terminal window and executing a bash command for Ctrl-9 using a special keyboard shortcut. I am pretty sure it still worked after I installed Lucid. Now it doesn’t. I can still run the command from the shell and it works and the short cut is stll listed in Keyboard Shortcuts. Any ideas?
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+ there are the Grid keybindings to resize windows. Not sure if the Grid plugin is enabled by default though.
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Super+M doesn’t work on 10.04, it opens the mail/chat indicator thing instead.
Super+S does the shutdown menu.
Right, and I’d love to undo this trapping of Super+M and Super+S, however no one seems to know how to do it.
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Thanks a lot. Great short cuts. Do you know the shortcut for volume control?
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Great someone has actually blogged about the changes and the new key actions.
As for the whinger:
Tomalak Geret’kal says:
May 6, 2010 at 2:22 am
The documentation you refer to is a wiki. Why not login and edit it with the changes you have described, instead of blogging about it in a non-centralised place that is completely unhelpful to Ubuntu users?
I am an ubuntu user and found this blog- and it was a lot easier than trolling through the mess that is ubuntu’s wiki.
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I appreciate any info regarding Ubuntu even it is scattered around the Web. Nevertheless, central place for latest information on Ubuntu should be found on Ubuntu wiki by the help of Ubuntu community. If it’s not updated anybody can edit and correct it. This is what Ubuntu means.
About shortcuts, wiki page is here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KeyboardShortcuts#Desktop%20Effects%20enabled%20shortcuts
Is there a shortcut to move window to the next monitor/screen? Like Win + Left/Right in Win7?
@Jay: try Ctrl+Alt+arrow keys (left, right, up, and down, depending on how your virtual desktops are arranged)
Very useful. Thanks!
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Cool shortcuts, very useful. Thanks a bunch!!! I found a few move shortcuts here: http://www.usingcomputers.co.uk/tutorials/useful-windows-shortcuts.php its worth taking a look at combined with this article. Thanks, keep up the good posts!
Big Thanks
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With the use of these shortcuts, my productivity rate increased by 36%.
Very useful, thanks.
My productivity increased by 50%, but then I spent half my day exploring other shortcuts so its a wash