Useful Nautilus Shortcuts

Nautilus is a default file manager for GNOME Desktop and is used as the default file manager in several linux distros such as Ubuntu. I love nautilus because its simple, friendly, and clean, supports local as well as remote file systems over different protocols. Moreover, there are several useful shortcuts that make life easier while using nautilus.

Below is the list of the most helpful shortcuts for navigation and file management in the nautilus:

Ctrl + r: Refresh the current view

Ctrl + h: Toggle show/hide mode for hidden files

F9: Show/Hide the side pane

Ctrl + l: Activate location/url bar (You can then provide path to local or remote filesystems or quickly copy the absolute paths)

Alt + Up Arrow: Move up one directory level

Alt + Down Arrow: Move down one directory level (the directory to be entered should be selected for this to work)

Alt + Left Arrow: Go back to the previous folder in view

Alt + Right Arrow: Go forward

Ctrl + Shift + n: Create a new empty directory

Ctrl + (+ / -): Zoom in (+) or zoom out (-)

Ctrl + 0: Zoom to normal state

Alt + Enter: View selected file/folder properties

F2: Rename selected file/folder

Ctrl + Shift + Drag file/folder: Create symbolic link to file/folder

Ctrl + f: Search for files/folders

Ctrl + s: Select files based upon templates (eg. select all pdf files using *.pdf)

Ctrl + 1: Toggle view as icons

Ctrl + 2: Toggle view as lists

Ctrl + 3: Toggle compact view

Ctrl + w: Close current nautilus window

Ctrl + Shift + w: Current all open nautilus windows

Ctrl + T: Open new tab

Alt + HOME: Navigate to HOME folder

F6: Toggle between side pane and central pane

Know more shortcuts? Share as the comments :)


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Useful Twitter Keyboard Shortcuts

Twitter allows number of keyboard shortcuts to be used and those shortcuts are quite handy while using twitter. Those shortcuts provide easy, fast and alternative way to do different things in twitter.

Note that these shortcuts work on twitter.com website and will not work on other twitter clients(unless those clients have implemented keyboard shortcuts). I hope the keyboard shortcut lovers will definitely find this list useful. The image below lists all the possible shortcuts that can be used in twitter.

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How To Reach To The End Of File In Nano Editor

Sometimes the file you are working on is so long that you might want to know some shortcut rather than going through each and every entry to reach the end of file. Here I am sharing the shortcut to reach at the end of line which will prove useful several times while working with nano editor.

To reach the end of the file, you can use one of the two shortcuts available in nano.

The first one is Alt + / and the second one is Ctrl + w + v. You can use either of these. Personally I am used to use the first one. By the way, if you want to reach to the top of the file, you can use the shortcut Alt + \.

I hope it proves useful for you.


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Mozilla Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts

Firefox is becoming more and more popular among the web browsers and this page lists the keyboard shortcuts that can be used with Mozilla Firefox.

F1     Opens Firefox help
F3     Find more text within the same webpage
F5     Reload the current webpage
F6     Toggles the cursor between the addressbar and current webpage
F7     Toggles Caret Browsing on and off.
       Used to be able to select text on a webpage with the keyboard
F11     Switch to Full Screen mode 
CTRL + A  Select all text on a webpage
CTRL + B  Open the Bookmarks sidebar
CTRL + C  Copy the selected text to the Windows clipboard
CTRL + D  Bookmark the current webpage
CTRL + F  Find text within the current webpage
CTRL + G  Find more text within the same webpage
CTRL + H  Opens the webpage History sidebar
CTRL + I  Open the Bookmarks sidebar
CTRL + J  Opens the Download Dialogue Box
CTRL + K  Places the cursor in the Web Search box
CTRL + L  Places the cursor into the URL box
CTRL + M  Opens your mail program to create a new email message
CTRL + N  Opens a new Firefox window
CTRL + O  Open a local file
CTRL + P  Print the current webpage
CTRL + R  Reloads the current webpage
CTRL + S  Save the current webpage on your PC
CTRL + T  Opens a new Firefox Tab
CTRL + U  View the page source of the current webpage
CTRL + V  Paste the contents of the Windows clipboard
CTRL + W  Closes the current Firefox Tab or Window
CTRL + X  Cut the selected text
CTRL + Z  Undo the last action

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