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Ideally one who wants to be super keyboard centric should try a window manager like awesome, i3 or xmonad, but I don’t want to do this now. Here is a list of keyboard shortcuts I like. It’s really easy to configure these in XFCE, openbox, fluxbox, KDE, (Ubuntu) unity, and so on… you only have to find the right option (or the right config file).

In XFCE, there are at least two relevant sections on its settings manager:

• Keyboard –> Application Shortcuts
• Window Manager –> Keyboard

In fluxbox, look for ~/.fluxbox/keys. In openbox, ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml.

You should know shortcuts are a personal thing. Customize them as you like.

Window Manager Shortcuts #

• Super + D = show desktop
• Alt + Tab = cycle through windows
  • Alt + Shift + Tab = (backwards)
• Alt + F4 = close current window
• Super + Up = maximize (and unmaximize) window

Application / Misc Shortcuts #

• Super + s = search (currently I launch catfish)
• Super + w = web browser (currently I launch firefox)
• Super + f = file manager (Thunar)
• Alt + F2 and Super + r = program launcher (could be fbrun. I use XFCE’s one)
• Alt + F3 = application finder (XFCE’s one)
• Print Screen = scrot or xfce4-screenshooter -r
• Super + c = configuration center (xfce4-settings-manager)
• Control + Alt + Del = lock screen (xflock4 or slock)
• Control + Esc = kill a window (xkill) - this is useful, I’ve learnt that from KDE
• Control + Alt + Esc = task manager (lxtask or xfce4-taskmanager) (inherited from KDE too)
• Super + Space = application launcher (synapse or gnome do or launchy)
• F12 = drop-down terminal (tilda or guake or yakuake (for KDE))

The super key is usually the windows key. Also, I like a feature called tiling. You probably know this one. Move the window to the left (or right) side in Windows 7/8 and it will resize and snap itself to the corresponding side. XFCE doesn’t support this out-of-the-box, but I’ve found a python script which accomplish this. Search for stiler (if you download the AUR package, notice you should run the script with python 2). Then, try stiler left and stiler right. I’ve assigned them to Super + Left and Super + Right, respectively.

I only posted here the shortcuts I commonly use. There are (usually) many more, but not every one are relevant.