Keyboard shortcuts that will help us be more productive with Ubuntu 18.04

The keyboard is a great tool not only for our Ubuntu but for any operating system. Although using the touch screen or the classic mouse may seem to speed up many processes, the truth is that using the keyboard keys we tend to work faster and more productively. Without forgetting that certain elements we cannot do with the touch screen or with mouse clicks.

Here we show you a series of keyboard shortcuts that will be useful in our day-to-day work with Ubuntu 18.04, with Gnome, with the terminal or with any other Ubuntu application.

General Shortcuts

Ctrl + Q -> Close the active application

Ctrl + A -> Select all

Ctrl + S -> Save the document or changes made

Ctrl + P -> Print the document

Ctrl + C -> Copy selected content

Ctrl + V -> Paste the contents of the clipboard

Ctrl + X -> Cut selected content

Keyboard Shortcuts with Gnome

Ctrl + Alt + Spacebar -> Restart Gnome

Alt + F2 -> Open the "Run command" box

Alt + F4 -> Close current window

Alt + Tab -> Toggle between windows

Ctrl + Alt + F1 -> Switch to first terminal or tty1 (no graphics mode)

Print -> Take a screenshot

Alt + Print -> Take a screenshot of the active screen

Terminal shortcuts

Up or Down Arrow -> Search through the history of commands used

Ctrl + C -> Kill the current or running process.

Ctrl + U -> Delete current line

Tab -> Complete the word according to the files that exist in the directory

These are not all the keyboard shortcuts out there but Yes, they are the most useful shortcuts that will help us to be faster and more effective in Ubuntu 18.04. Many of them can also be applied to the official Ubuntu flavors although those related to Gnome will not work quite well.