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Archive for May 23rd, 2007

Ubuntu, one of top 20 products of the year

Posted by vntutor on May 23, 2007


Fast and friendly, Ubuntu has solidified itself as the one Linux distribution that Linux geeks love and newbies can comfortably use. As the result, it is listed one of top 20 products of the year.

Resource: PC World magazine

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How to create a hotkey to open terminal

Posted by vntutor on May 23, 2007

In last post, I told you how to use existing hot keys to save time. However, we can also create hot keys to run other applications in Ubuntu. For example, how can we create a hotkey to launch a new terminal? It is too easy to do that because Ubuntu has a built-in utility for assigning shortcut keys.

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Useful hotkeys in Ubuntu

Posted by vntutor on May 23, 2007

The amount of time you spend learning these hotkeys will be multiplied back to you many times when using. Do you want to learn? Why not? :)

1. Ctrl + Alt + L: Lock screen
2. Alt + F2: Show the panel to run an application
3. Print : Take a screen shot
4. Alt + Space : Active window menu
5. Alt + F4 : Close window
6. Alt +Tab: Move between window
7. Ctrl + Alt + Backspace: Logout

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