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Frank

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Registered: 2026-03-14

Posts: 2

Hello Xfce family

I'm Frank from Germany. After spending 15 years experimenting with various tiling window managers on Arch, Artix, and Debian, I decided last week to give Xfce a try—and wow, I'm totally blown away.

Now that I’ve customized the keyboard shortcuts to match my muscle memory, I feel right at home.

A big thank you to everyone involved in the Xfce project for this fantastic software 🙏

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: Hello Xfce family

Hello and welcome Frank.

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kwizzz

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Registered: 2024-11-10

Posts: 39

Re: Hello Xfce family

Servus, Frank.  Good to see some fellow Germans and XFCE users :-)

As I also used tiling window managers, I was wondering if you could share your muscle memory keyboard shortcuts.

Frank

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Registered: 2026-03-14

Posts: 2

Re: Hello Xfce family

Servus, Frank.

Moin kwizzz! Thank you for the welcome, sounds like you're located in the south of Germany.

As I also used tiling window managers, I was wondering if you could share your muscle memory keyboard

Beside from long-term tiling window manger usage I also use Neovim and so  H, J, K and L motion keys and lots of other useful (n)vim command are daily companions. To get some of this functionality into Betterbird I've installed the tbkeys-light extension and in Firefox the vimium extension is a must have . Xfce related keybindings also use some vimlike keybindings. The most used ones are the following:

Super + d: Lauch Application Finder
Super + e: Launch Betterbird
Super + f: Toggle Maximize Window
Super + i: Take screenshot of active window
Super + j: Cycle Windows (forwards)
Super + k: Cycle Windows (backwards)
Super + s: Toggle Sticky
Super + w: Launch Firefox
Super + Enter: Launch Xfce4 Terminal
Super + Shift + Enter: Launch Xfce4 drop-down Terminal
Super + Shift + i: Take screenshot of selected area
Super + Shift + h: Tile active window to the left
Super + Shift + j: Tile active window to the bottom
Super + Shift + k: Tile active window to the top
Super + Shift + l: Tile active window to the right
Super + Backspace: SysAct Menu
Alt + Shift + e: Lauch Libre Office Calc
Alt + Shift + p: Launch KeePassXC
Alt + Shift + r: Lauch Thunar
Alt + Shift + s: Launch Local Send
Alt + Shift + w: Lauch Libre Office Writer
Alt + Shift + x: Launch Dino
Ctrl + Alt + d: Toggle Show Desktop

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Hello and welcome Frank.

Thank you for the welcome, ToZ 

kwizzz

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Registered: 2024-11-10

Posts: 39

Re: Hello Xfce family

Moin kwizzz! Thank you for the welcome, sounds like you're located in the south of Germany.

So true, you northern light ;-)

Beside from long-term tiling window manger usage I also use Neovim and so  H, J, K and L motion keys and lots of other useful (n)vim command are daily companions. To get some of this functionality into Betterbird I've installed the tbkeys-light extension and in Firefox the vimium extension is a must have . Xfce related keybindings also use some vimlike keybindings. The most used ones are the following:

Wow, I see where you come from (i3, I suppose & beloved vim/neovim).  Thank you so much for your inspiration on adapting some shortcuts the most logical and obvious way I never thought of!

Now, if I could only move and resize windows with hjkl keys...