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I have been using Windows systems for a few years now, and most of my tasks used to get accomplished without using the mouse. I have recently switched to Ubuntu 14.04, and I'm eager to know the keyboard shortcuts. I have some confusions as well.

  1. I use this combo Alt+F2 to go to my home folders \home\ etc. Is there any way out? I used to do the same using winkey+R in Windows.
  2. I will be using Google Chrome, TexMaker and LibreOffice only. I would love to know if there are quicker ways to launch these apps, other than going to the launch bar and clicking their icons. For Chrome, I do this google-chrome in the terminal. It was way easier in Windows though; just winkey+R and then chrome.
  3. When I'm using chrome, if I press Alt then there's this Type your command bar pops up on top of my screen. What's that?

If someone can give me a handy document where all the shortcuts are placed, I'll be glad. Thanks!

muru
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  • "Is there any way out?" not sure what that means? Do you want to exit the dialog? – muru Dec 12 '16 at 03:19
  • I believe that link will do. Also, thanks for the edit. I didn't know that such greetings are not welcome on the platform. By another way out I mean any shortcut shorter than this. Any thoughts on 3. ?@muru – Vibhu Dec 12 '16 at 03:32
  • To change the shortcut, probably unity-tweak-tool has an option: http://askubuntu.com/a/294604/158442. For 3, IIRC you can access the menu entries by typing in that bar (for example, if File menu contains Save As, type "Save As", and so on) – muru Dec 12 '16 at 03:35
  • @muru If I type cd Documents and then type nautilus, it seems to open the home directory, instead of opening the documents folder. What am doing wrong? – Vibhu Dec 22 '16 at 14:23
  • If you're doing that in the Alt-F2 prompt, each command is executed individually. Just do nautilus Documents – muru Dec 22 '16 at 14:24

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