Keys and Shortcuts

Documentation / Contents - Desks

• Overview of the Desks Overview
  • What Belongs to the Window Manager
• Switching Desks
  • Finding the Current Desk
  • The Scroll Arrows
• Moving Windows Between Desks
  • The Global Desk
  • Click, Double-Click and Drag
• Creating, Renaming, and Removing Desks
  • Naming a Desk
  • Adding a Desk
  • Removing a Desk
• The Menus
  • The Overview Menu
  • The Desk Menu
  • The Window Menu
  • The Help Menu
  • The Button 3 Popup
• Size, Orientation, and Labels
  • Scale
  • Orientation
  • Window Labels
  • Snapshots or Buttons
• Setting Preferences
  • The Overview Page
  • The Desk Names Page
  • Apply and Close
• Keys and Shortcuts
  • Overview Menu
  • Desk Menu
  • Window Menu
• Where the Settings Live
• Copyright Information

Keys and Shortcuts

Every menu item that has a keyboard shortcut shows it on the right of the menu, and the shortcut runs the same action from anywhere in the window. The underlined letter in a menu name is its mnemonic: hold the menu open and press that letter to pick the item.

Overview Menu

Hide Menubar    Ctrl+H
Exit            Ctrl+Q

Desk Menu

New Desk              Ctrl+N
Copy Selected         Ctrl+C     (not live yet)
Rename Selected       Ctrl+R
Goto Selected         Ctrl+O
Delete Selected       (no shortcut)

Delete has no one-key shortcut on purpose: removing a desk is destructive, so it is left to the menu where you cannot trip over it.

Window Menu

The Window menu acts on the miniature window you have selected in the map.

List All...         Ctrl+L
Restore All         Shift+Ctrl+M
Minimize All        Ctrl+M
Remove from Desk    Ctrl+D
Add to Global       Ctrl+G
Minimize            Ctrl+E
Restore             Shift+Ctrl+E
Raise               (no shortcut)
Lower               (no shortcut)

The whole Window menu is present but not yet live. The items are greyed and these accelerators do nothing, because an accelerator on an insensitive item does not fire. See The Menus.

Help Menu

Click for Help    Shift+F1    (not live yet)

Click for Help would turn the pointer into a question mark so that the next thing you click explains itself. It needs the help viewer's widget-path resolver, which is not built yet.

The Mouse

Button 1 on a cell            Switch to that desk
Button 1 on a miniature       Switch to that desk
Button 1 drag a miniature     Move it to another desk
Button 1 double-click         Switch to that desk
Button 1 on a scroll arrow    Slide the visible desks
Button 3 anywhere             The four menus, as a popup

See Moving Windows Between Desks for why a single click and a drag start the same way.

Session Shortcuts

Switching desks and sending windows to them does not need this window at all. The window manager binds those directly:

Ctrl+Alt+Right        Next desktop
Ctrl+Alt+Left         Previous desktop
Ctrl+Alt+s            Toggle sticky window
Super+1 .. Super+0    Go to desktop 1 to 10
Alt+1 .. Alt+0        The same, second set
Super+Shift+1 .. 0    Send window to desk 1 to 10

Those are the stock chords and every one of them can be rebound in the Menu & Shortcuts editor. See the MenuShortcuts book, from Help Books in the Contents pane .

See Overview of the Desks Overview to start over, or Size, Orientation, and Labels for the presentation choices.