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"...and no sentence begins with “bring up the terminal” or any other UNIX techno-babble." I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that his intended audien

"...and no sentence begins with “bring up the terminal” or any other UNIX techno-babble." I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that his intended audience probably doesn't include many HN readers...

patio11 17y ago
It would seem to me that you're in the worst possible place as a power Windows user who is not a programmer: you're efficient and productive on one system and are going to lose most of your tricks, but can't take advantage of the parts of Linux where it is better than Windows. I still haven't figured out what the key combination is to reproduce Windows-M on Ubuntu (minimize all Windows so I can see my desktop). It's really annoying when I think "Oh, crud, need to SSH into my production server but I have an IDE and 12 windows sitting on top of the shortcut."
- jibiki 17y ago
  ctrl + alt + d (First hit for "ubuntu minimize all windows" on google.)
- thwarted 17y ago
  I think the default is "Control-Alt-D". This is customizable in gnome in Preferences | Personal | Keyboard Shortcuts. There's also a gnome panel button/icon called "show desktop" that can be toggled on and off. Alternatively, you can have multiple virtual desktops, and if you need to switch mental contexts to handle the cases like you described, you can switch to a different, empty one. Instant new context, and the old context isn't disturbed at all. This is actually a good example of something where you don't know the kinds of things Linux offers and it's difficult to know where to start to translate your Windows-desktop-fu to Linux-desktop-fu.
- ableal 17y ago
  You don't do that - i.e. you don't use a single desktop that you need to clear. That's a Windows thing, where multiple desktops never worked right, and always needed add-ons. You put an extra Gnome toolbar on your screen's right side, and you add a "Desktop-switcher" applet (I also like the "System monitor" applet there, and a couple other gewgaws). Then you keep a desktop for each work topic (web, docs, mail, whatever), and a clean one for the visitors ;-). All one click away, generally work flawlessly. But there's also a "Show desktop" applet, to add to your single-desktop toolbar, if you insist.
- rbanffy 17y ago
  Having a shortcut for something like ssh is so Windows...

patio11 17y ago

It would seem to me that you're in the worst possible place as a power Windows user who is not a programmer: you're efficient and productive on one system and are going to lose most of your tricks, but can't take advantage of the parts of Linux where it is better than Windows. I still haven't figured out what the key combination is to reproduce Windows-M on Ubuntu (minimize all Windows so I can see my desktop). It's really annoying when I think "Oh, crud, need to SSH into my production server but I have an IDE and 12 windows sitting on top of the shortcut."

jibiki 17y ago
ctrl + alt + d (First hit for "ubuntu minimize all windows" on google.)
thwarted 17y ago
I think the default is "Control-Alt-D". This is customizable in gnome in Preferences | Personal | Keyboard Shortcuts. There's also a gnome panel button/icon called "show desktop" that can be toggled on and off. Alternatively, you can have multiple virtual desktops, and if you need to switch mental contexts to handle the cases like you described, you can switch to a different, empty one. Instant new context, and the old context isn't disturbed at all. This is actually a good example of something where you don't know the kinds of things Linux offers and it's difficult to know where to start to translate your Windows-desktop-fu to Linux-desktop-fu.
ableal 17y ago
You don't do that - i.e. you don't use a single desktop that you need to clear. That's a Windows thing, where multiple desktops never worked right, and always needed add-ons. You put an extra Gnome toolbar on your screen's right side, and you add a "Desktop-switcher" applet (I also like the "System monitor" applet there, and a couple other gewgaws). Then you keep a desktop for each work topic (web, docs, mail, whatever), and a clean one for the visitors ;-). All one click away, generally work flawlessly. But there's also a "Show desktop" applet, to add to your single-desktop toolbar, if you insist.
rbanffy 17y ago
Having a shortcut for something like ssh is so Windows...