On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 09:54:07AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 09:40 +0100, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: > > > Yes, there are some useful shortcuts. I guess tty is unimportant at the > > > moment, but e.g. Alt+F2 is useful to launch an app and Ctrl+Alt+F7 is > > > useful, if a newbie should "lose" the desktop environment. Cut and copy > > > shortcuts perhaps are already known > > > > The problem for shortcuts are that they differ depending on user > > configuration. Are the ALT+F2 used by all major DE? I only know it is used > > by XFCE... > > Alt+F2 usually does work with all DEs by default, other shortcuts, e.g. > Ctrl+Alt+Backspace nowadays are usually disabled by default.
Which reminds me of another handy/important command: dpkg-reconfigure <package-name> i.e. dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration allows you change whether Ctrl+Alt+Backspace terminates the X server. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121121141458.GB32325@tal
