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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3 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...
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