Keyboard shortcuts are very handy (pardon the pun). If you use your mouse more than your keyboard, then does that make you a mouseketeer?
If you want to be proficient at using a computer, you should really learn (it's easy with [http://linuxreviews.org/beginner/learn-touch/ KTouch]) to be a fast typist. Maybe someday soon you can talk at your computer and it will be smart enough to do all the things you can instruct it to do using the keyboard, but at the present time, good keyboarding is a valuable skill.
Generally, menu's themselves will instruct you about the shortcuts that are available (that is what the underlined character is for). Just press the "Alt" key and press the underlined letter in the menu to activate that menu option. You can even navigate the menu by pressing Alt and then using arrow keys. Look at the menus, there are many nice options that you might not even know about.
* Want an instant photo gallery? In the Konqueror file manager, hitting Ctrl+i creates an HTML image gallery, with many options.
== Console/terminal ==
* Ctrl-Alt-Delete - shuts down computer
* Alt-Fn (F1, F2, F3,
* Alt-Left or Alt-Right - switch to next/previous virtual terminal
* Scroll Lock - locks terminal input/output - allows to read console contents when output is going too fast. To unlock, press Scroll Lock once again. Alternatively, Scroll Lock can be enabled using Ctrl-S and disabled with Ctrl-Q. Try last shortcut if your console hangs for unknown reason - it happened to me many times that
* Shift-Page Up and Shift-Page Down - scrolls console buffer up/down. Works also when Scroll Lock is enabled. After changing the terminal (Alt-Fn) buffer contents is erased and it is impossible to scroll it.
* Ctrl-L - screen refresh
* Alt-SysRQ-S - sync all mounted filesystem. Data in buffers is immediately written to disks.
* Alt-SysRQ-U - remounts mounted filesystems read-only
* Alt-SysRQ-B - performs immediate reboot.
* Alt-SysRQ-S, then Alt-SysRQ-U, then Alt-SysRQ-B - attempts to sync all mounted filesystems, remounts them read-only and immediately reboots computer. Fastest way to reboot Linux.
* Alt-SysRQ-H - prints out list of other SysRQ functions.
* Alt+middle click sends the active window to the background.
* Ctrl-Alt-Plus or Ctrl-Alt-Minus- changes screen resolution (higher/lower). Only if X-Windows server is configured for multiple resolutions.
* Ctrl-Alt-Backspace - kill restart X-server. '''Running applications will be terminated.''' So much faster than typing <code>/etc/init.d/kdm restart</code>
* Ctrl-Alt-Escape - xkill - click an application to kill it.
* Ctrl-Shift-Num Lock will turn the keypad on the keyboard into the mouse, so you can control the mouse from keyboard. Keys / and * on the numpad select left mouse click and right mouse click respectively. Mouse click is done by 5 on the numpad.
* Ctrl-Alt-Fn (F1, F2, F3,
== KDE shortcuts ==
* Alt-F2 - Starts the run command box. Type a application executable to launch it, folder name to open it, filename to use an appropriate program to launch it, url to go to it in konqueror and any of the numerous web shortcuts(gg, wp) defined by konqueror to activate them.
== Resources ==You can view the current shortcuts in each application's menu/settings and for the KDE desktop, they are found in the 'keyboard' section of the KControl (System->System Settings) Do you know any other shortcuts good shortcuts? You can easily register and add them to this page http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/linux-shortcut-keys-369859/ [[Category:System Administration]][[Category:Desktop]]
