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Re: keyboard shortcut for 'show desktop'

dummy@example.com (natxo) — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:55:58 +0000

fantastic, there it was. Thanks a lot!

Re: keyboard shortcut for 'show desktop'

dummy@example.com (Nick) — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:27:05 +0000

Not in the keyboard settings, but in the window manager settings (where you can change the window borders etc).

It will probably show up when you run xfce-settings-show xfwm4

Re: keyboard shortcut for 'show desktop'

dummy@example.com (natxo) — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:46:09 +0000

it is not there in my xfce

I only have 5 options:

xfce4-popup-menu
xfhlep4
xflock4
xfrun4
xkill

grepping for show or desktop in the $.config folder gives no significant options.

Re: keyboard shortcut for 'show desktop'

dummy@example.com (Nick) — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 07:35:46 +0000

You can find this setting in the window manager settings -> keyboard. There is an item in the list named "show desktop".

Re: keyboard shortcut for 'show desktop'

dummy@example.com (sourlime) — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 07:19:05 +0000

I just saw it documented somewhere on a page of shortcuts, so I have no idea where to change the settings. Right now I'm just thankful that I can use the Win-Key to pull up the menu, because the less I use my mouse the happier I am.

Re: keyboard shortcut for 'show desktop'

dummy@example.com (natxo) — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 06:52:03 +0000

yes, that works. How did you find it, by the way? Maybe then we can turn it to a 2 keys combo

Re: keyboard shortcut for 'show desktop'

dummy@example.com (sourlime) — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:05:35 +0000

I'm not sure if this is the best way, but you can minimize all windows with the combination:

Ctrl-Alt-D

If anyone has a two keystroke version, that would be even better.

keyboard shortcut for 'show desktop'

dummy@example.com (natxo) — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:13:23 +0000

hi,

first of all, thanks for this software, my home workstation feels usable again

I got used to using alt-d for minimizing everything and showing the deskotp. I cannot figure out how to do this in xfce (fedora6, this morning I got the update to 4.4.0). What is the command behind the icon on the taskbar for doing this?

thanks in advance.