Like Windows, Ubuntu (and pretty much every other Linux) has a "Show Desktop" icon on it's toolbar that minimizes all the running applications to the taskbar allowing full view of the desktop. I discovered it last week by accident whilst I was attempting to pull off a difficult triple-press-perfect-timing-required IDE 'shortcut' ;) The keyboard shortcut for "Show Desktop" is: Ctrl-Alt-D I also found a great linux desktop hotkeys article written by the Calgary Linux Users Group . Technorati Tags: Show Desktop , Ubuntu , Linux , CLUG , Andrew Beacock
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