New Keyboard Shortcuts for Xubuntu

Sean Davis smd.seandavis at gmail.com
Sun Jun 23 00:32:36 UTC 2019


Since Super+D and Super+L seem to be generally well-received and 
unobtrusive, we'll go forward with adding these shortcuts.

Thanks everybody for your feedback!

On 6/17/19 4:15 AM, David Pires wrote:
> +1 on adding the first two shortcuts
>
> On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 at 16:56, Pasi Lallinaho <pasi at shimmerproject.org 
> <mailto:pasi at shimmerproject.org>> wrote:
>
>     On 15.6.2019 4.11, Sean Davis wrote:
>>     Hello everyone!
>>
>>     During today's Xubuntu community meeting, we discussed the
>>     potential of shipping some new keyboard shortcuts in Xubuntu. I
>>     proposed the following shortcuts found in other DEs and OSes.
>>
>>     Super+D: Show Desktop
>>     Super+L: Lock Screen
>
>     As I mentioned, I think these are sane and should be added.
>
>>
>>     Spass also recommended Super+Space to display the applications
>>     menu. This one is found in elementary OS, and possibly other
>>     desktops as well.
>
>     I've heard many people say the ideal situation would be to bind
>     just the Super key to the menu, but unfortunately this is not
>     possible tecnically (at least at the moment). This leads us to the
>     question: do we add the Super+Space combo just to have "something"
>     to open the menu and end up with a suboptimal combo – potentially
>     leading to frustration?
>
>>
>>     Team, what do you think? Should we proceed with adding the first
>>     two shortcuts? Super+Space? Others? Discuss it here.
>>
>>     -- 
>>     Thanks,
>>
>>     Sean Davis (bluesabre)
>>     Xubuntu Technical Lead
>>
>
>     Cheers,
>     Pasi
>
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