From the course: Learning Fedora Linux
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Using the GNOME desktop with keyboard shortcuts
From the course: Learning Fedora Linux
Using the GNOME desktop with keyboard shortcuts
- While navigating the gnome shell is designed to be used with a mouse or touch interface you can navigate it around pretty effectively with a keyboard as well. To bring up overview mode, press the command or windows key, depending on your hardware, or press alt 1. On a mac you may need to press function option f1. Alt f2 or on a mac laptop, function option f2, brings up the command window, this lets you send commands to gnome, including the names of installed applications, for example I can launch firefox just by typing the name. But I'll close out of that for now. I'll open that up again with alt f2, this control lets you run commands that you can run in a terminal, but not necessarily the names of applications. So I can launch the files application by typing nautilus in here because that's the name of the application behind the scenes, switching between open apps can be accomplished by pressing alt tab. I'll open up a terminal window, and now holding down alt and pressing tab I can…
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