Where can I find the shortcut keys of all the applications?

Graphic Symbols used for Control, Alt and Shift keys in Linux Applications

• Trying to find out if there are any standard symbols used to represent the Alt, Control and Shift keys on Linux Application menus. I.E. in a Windows application on the edit menu the Paste command keyboard shortcut is Control V - usually shown on a menu as Ctrl+V. On a Macintosh the equivalent shortcut is Command V - usually shown on a menu as *V. (Where * is actually a symbol that looks a bit like a 4 leaf clover.

• Answer:

  Hi dbm999-ga ! Here is some information I have found on the way shortcuts are represented in Linux. I have included pages that list Linux keyboard shortcuts, show screen shots of the shortcut commands in the menu's of various Linux applications, and a page or two that lists compare the different abbreviated shortcuts for Linux, Windows and Mac's. If you have any questions about the information that I have provided, feel free to request a clarification of my answer. Please do allow me enough time to respond before you rate the answer. Thanks so much! Chellphill-ga http://www.unixguide.net/linux/linuxshortcuts.shtml Linux Shortcuts and Commands: http://www.ilinkt.com/cgi-bin/ilinkt/tips.cgi?1 Useful Linux shortcuts http://guymal.com/techCorner/linux_shortcuts.html Common Linux shortcuts you should know http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlitescreen.html Screen shots showing a linux application's file and edit menus. http://support.generation.net/eng/linux/linuxnse.shtml Screen shots showing Netscape 4.X's edit menu and shortcuts http://static.kdenews.org/mirrors/qwertz/kde31alpha/s12.png showing KDE's menu on a right click. http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.1alpha1.php “Terminal emulator. The terminal emulator (Konsole) can now bookmark commands which start a new shell, such as ssh://[email protected]. It also displays an information dialog now when the user presses Ctrl-s, as some users do not realize this action can activate scroll locking. The emulator's copy-to-clipboard behavior has been modified to conform to the KDE standard (now one must select the Copy entry in the Edit menu to copy to the secondary "Windows" clipboard, while highlighting continues to copy to the primary "X11" clipboard)” http://www.dvo.ru/linux/editors.html “ File: New Window C-n, Open New C-o, Load File C-l, Insert File C-i, Revert to Saved, Save C-s, Save as, Write selection C-w, Print C-p, Close, Quit Edit:Undo C-u Redo C-r . Also the following functions are available, but not (???) on the menu: Cut: C-x , Paste C-v, Copy C-c Search:Go to line F1 , Search String F2, Search Next F3, Search Previous F4,Replace F5 OPtions Medium Font, Large FOnt, Small Font, Auto Indent, Customize - { Initial Wdith, Initial Height, Tab size, Auto-indent } Note that this is also missing the word-wrap feature. Also, the basic cut/copy/paste functions aren't listed in the edit menu, though this may be easy to fix. Otherwise, it's quite a nice editor. medit” http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2002-February/msg00159.html Usage of <Shift> <ins> as paste http://www.trylinuxsd.com/kde2/pages/kde17.html More fun with shortcuts http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/getting-started-guide/keyboard-shortcuts.html Keyboard shortcuts from Redhat http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/shortcuts.html More keyboard shortcuts http://www.basic2solutions.com/tips/tricks/linux.html#lnkweb15 Various keyboard shortcuts http://www.linuxsucks.com/results.html One persons opinion on Linux “All of the Gnome and KDE user-interfaces I've seen so far are simply cheap imitations of already bad Windows GUIs with all of their non-intuitiveness, modal user interaction, inconsistent menu shortcuts and naming...” http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.2.1/ Keyboard shortcuts on Linux now use Ctrl instead of Alt as the modifier key, while Alt is used for menu shortcuts. If you wish to modify these shortcut keys, add the following prefs (instructions here: http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.2.1/#prefs) “GNU Emacs uses an extension of the ASCII character set for keyboard input; it also accepts non-character input events including function keys and mouse button actions. linux.ucla.edu/manual/emacs-20.7/ps/emacs.ps.gz http://216.239.33.100/linux?q=cache:7GbgLkMIkqIJ:linux.ucla.edu/manual/emacs-20.7/ps/emacs.ps.gz+%22graphic+symbols%22+used+for+menu+shortcuts+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 GNU Emacs Manual ASCII consists of 128 character codes. Some of these codes are assigned graphic symbols such as `a' and `='; the rest are control characters, such as Control-a (usually written C-a for short). C-a gets its name from the fact that you type it by holding down the CTRL i key while pressing a.” http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/Shortcuts.html “Menus will often have combinations of keys that can be used as a shortcut. These keyboard shortcuts will usually appear to the right within the menu itself as a reminder. The associated keyboard shortcut is usually a combination of keys beginning with Control or Alt. Pressing the specified key combinations has the same result as choosing the menu item. For example, if the Edit menu has a Cut choice with a keyboard shortcut of Ctl+X then holding down the Control key while you type the X key has the same effect as choosing the Cut menu item. “ “Many shortcuts are in common usage amongst GNOME applications and will be familiar to users of the Win32 OS “ http://help.netscape.com/netscape7/shortcuts.html This document uses the following format for listing shortcuts: Command Windows Mac Linux Copy Ctrl+C Cmd+C Ctrl+C (list of comparable commands for netscape under windows, mac, and linux) http://www.itworld.com/nl/lnx_tip/09072001/pf_index.html “Many developers adopt the traditional UNIX editors: vi or Emacs. Both are available in Windows versions and both have highly partisan adherents. The Control-key shortcuts, which conflict with those of standard business applications (and especially Microsoft Word), pushed me away from Emacs. The conflicts make it hard to go back and forth between text editing and writing project documents in a word processor. “ http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/306/2000/5/0/3798809/ Function key mappings proposal