Re: Better keyboard shortcuts

2016-07-05 Thread Xen
Dale Amon schreef op 27-06-2016 0:50: I believe it is called the Super key? What a stupid name to begin with! And Alt is called the Meta key? Equally stupid. [...] What on earth were people thinking when they tried to get away from calling it "windows key" and "alt key" While nowadays

Re: Better keyboard shortcuts

2016-06-26 Thread Dale Amon
I believe it is called the Super key? What a stupid name to begin with! And Alt is called the Meta key? Equally stupid. [...] What on earth were people thinking when they tried to get away from calling it "windows key" and "alt key" While nowadays there are only two naming schemes that

Re: Better keyboard shortcuts

2016-06-26 Thread Xen
Jan Claeys schreef op 25-06-2016 2:28: While nowadays there are only two naming schemes that are still commonly used (IBM PC-based & Apple), a long time ago many computer companies had their own keyboard layouts & key names.  On many old keyboards these keys were named the "meta" and "super" key

Re: Better keyboard shortcuts

2016-06-24 Thread Jan Claeys
On vr, 2016-06-24 at 16:02 +0200, Xen wrote: > In case it matters, personally I wish people would just drop their > hate of Microsoft and actually bind the Windows key on many keyboards > to something useful. It is just not bound. It's used a lot in the standard Ubuntu desktop. For other desktop

Re: Better keyboard shortcuts

2016-06-24 Thread Xen
nce! I do not want to install Autokey, I want a builtin functionality as I already mentioned above. In plus, Ctrl+R does one thing inside a browser window and another thing inside a terminal window. I just want, for example, to press Menu key and Ubuntu to think I pressed Ctrl+R. That's all. J

Better keyboard shortcuts

2016-06-24 Thread One Infinite Loop
I'd like to press, for example, the Menu key and the output be as if I pressed Ctrl+R or another combination of keys. In other words, I'd like to set aliases for combos using the same graphical user interface (System Settings/Keyboard menu) provided by Ubuntu 16.04 to set/change keyboard shortcuts.