How to "Show Desktop" in Ubuntu Linux
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-DI also found a great linux desktop hotkeys article written by the Calgary Linux Users Group.
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11 Comments:
Thank sooooo much been trying to find that shortcut for ages!!
A deep sigh. At last! Thanks for that shortcut. Noel
Nice, thanks for the info. I wanted to know how to show desktop with the keyboard ever since I first pressed "Windows key"+D and all it did was type the letter D into my OpenOffice document...
OMG! I owe you.
You are God sent!!
I've been trying to see my desktop for 2weeks.
Thanks again.
Daniel
Awesome thanks.
Having just started playing around with Ubuntu, this was one of the first things I have been trying to do with "window+d"! Oh well, at least I didn't have to spend as much time as others did! haha!
My point is, thanks a bunch!
A Big Thanks
rly ty
thank you!!! been trying to figure this one out for a while.. guess if i just would have searched i would have found duh lol.. thanks a bunch
ooh dear!! finally! thanks dude :)
thnks sir, very handy, specially in ubuntu 11.10
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