Improved Window Management Shortcuts Land in Lucid

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Sebastian Bacher landed improved Compiz keyboard shortcucts in Lucid this week during the distro sprint in Portland, Oregon (which is by far the best sprint I’ve ever been to–everybody is rocking):

  • Super↓E↓↑↑ triggers Expo as usual.
  • Super↓W↓↑↑ scales all windows on your current workspace (hint: try typing in scale mode!).
  • Super↓A↓↑↑ scales all windows on all workspaces.
  • Super↓D↓↑↑ replaces Control↓Alt↓D↓↑↑↑ for Show Desktop.

Other Compiz changes have landed this week, including snappier window animations and other paper cut-sized fixes. Enjoy!

6 comments

  1. Matthew wrote,

    I’m seeing “Super[down arrow]D[down arrow][up arrow][up arrow]“. Is that what I’m supposed to see? If so, what does it mean?

  2. Jeremy Bicha wrote,

    I think the normal syntax should just be “Super+D”.

  3. Adam wrote,

    I think it means (1) Push Super down, (2) Push D down, (3) Release D, (4) Release Super—or (3) Release Super and D.

  4. Corey Burger wrote,

    Ouch, I feel sorry for the Windows refugeees. Windows (Super) + E launches the File Browser. I really wish there was something as easy by default in Ubuntu. Useless comments about how that is an option are just that.

  5. David wrote,

    Matthew, see Adam’s explanation Smile I was just trying a different syntax to the traditional shortcut syntax Jeremy mentions.

    Corey, interesting. At least Windows users will be able to use Super+D for now.

  6. JakeT wrote,

    I totally agree with Corey. Disabling Expo and binding win+e to open nautilus happens right after I bind win+t to open a terminal.