Useful Keyboard Shortcut in Linux

If we want to work faster we need to know keyboard shortcuts. Always using mouse sometime boring. Even though, I don’t know all keyboard shortcuts. I am going to keep the common used keyboard shortcut!

Shortcut in Debian Linux

These shortcut works on Debina based Linux and Gnome

Navigation

Super+Shift+Left/Right	Move window to left/right monitor
Ctrl+Alt+Tab	Switch System Controls
Super+Tab	Switch Applications
Alt+Esc	Switch Window Directly

System

Super+L	Lock Screen
Super+A	Show All Notifications
Alt+F2	Run Command Prompt
Supper or Super+s	Overview
Logout	Ctrl+Alt+Delete

Window

Alt+F7	Move Window
Alt+F8	Resize Window
Alt+Up/Down	Restore Window
Super+Left/Right	Split on Left/Right
Alt+F4	Close Window
Super+h	Hide Window

Application Shortcut

If the applications are gnome based, same shortcut should work on different distros

Vmware Workstation

Ctrl+Alt+Enter	Enter Full Screen
Alt then Alt+Enter	Exit Full Screen
Ctrl+Alt+Left/Right	Switch To next vm in Full Screen Mode

Gnome Terminal

Shift+Ctrl+T	New Tab
Shift+Ctrl+W	Close Tab
Shift+Ctrl+C	Copy
Shift+Ctrl+V	Paste
F11	Full Screen
Ctrl+ +/-	Zoom in/out
Shift+Ctrl+F/G/H	Find and Find next/previous
Ctrl+Left/Right/1..2	Switch Tabs
Shift+Ctrl+Up/Down	Scroll up down
Shift+Home/End	Scroll to Top/End
Ctrl+U/K	Delete a Line while cursor at the end/start
Ctrl+Y	Paste from clipboard
Ctrl+R/P	Reverse Incremental/Non-Incremental Search

Nautilus

Ctrl+h	Show/Hide Hidden Files
Ctrl+R	Refresh
F9	Toggle Side Pane
Alt+Left	Go Back
Alt+Right	Forward
Alt+Home	Go Home
Ctrl++/-	Zome in/Zoom Out
Ctrl+0	Reset Zoom
Ctrl+L	Go to location bar
Ctrl+Shift+N	Create New Folder
F2	Rename File
Alt+Enter	File Properties
Shift+Ctrl+Mouse drag	Create symbolic link

Google Chrome

Ctrl+N	Open new window
Ctrl+Shift+N	New Incognito Window
Ctrl+T	Open New Tab
Ctrl+Tab/Right/Left	Navigate to tabs
Ctrl+1..8	Navigate tabs by tab numbers
Ctrl+9	Go to last tab
Ctrl+F4	Close Current Tab
Alt+F4	Close Current Window
Alt+F	Chrome Menu
F12	Developer Tools
Ctrl+Shift+O	Bookmarks Manager
Ctrl+L or F6	Focus on Location Bar
Ctrl+S	Save Current Page
Ctrl+Shift+R	Reload without cache
Tab	Navigate to clickable Items
Shift+Tab	Navigate from the End to Clickable items
Ctrl+U	View Source Code
Ctrl+D	Bookmark
Ctrl+ +/-/0	Zoom in, Zoom out and default size
Ctrl+Backspace	Delete Last word

Gedit

Ctrl+O	Open File
Ctrl+N	New File
Ctrl+S	Save File
Ctrl+L	Go to Line Number
Ctrl+Alt+Right/Left	Next Tab
Ctrl+W	Close current Tab
Ctrl+F	Find
Ctrl+H	Find and Replace
Ctrl+Q	Quit Gedit

Nano

Ctrl+S	Save File
Ctrl+O	Save as
Ctrl+K	Delete Current Line
Ctrl+X	Exit from nano (Yes/No for save)
Alt+6	Copy Current Line
Ctrl+U	Paste Copied Line
Ctrl+Q	Backward Search
Ctrl+W	Forward Search
Alt+Q	Find next occurrence Backward
Alt+W	Find next occurrence Forward
Ctrl+T	Run command and paste output

Hope this keyboard shortcut is helpful for someone, at least for me :)!