Unity Keyboard Shortcuts for Ubuntu 12.04

Unity keyboard shortcuts can increase your productivity if you learn to use it to your benefit. I know some of you are from the menu based design of KDE and Gnome2 so you may find it irritating at first.

But if you give it a try out of curiosity then surely you’re going to find it easy to use and in fact it will speed up your work.

Keyboard shortcuts are not just for power users, even the “point and click” users can benefit from their use. If you want to give it a try on your ubuntu 12.04 setup then, click on Windows key or super key on keyboard for a second and you’ll see all the keyboard shortcuts.

Check the following image for the keyboard shortcuts.

HUD in Ubuntu is quite an improvement, you’ll be able to do a lot of good things with it. Just try these shortcuts one per day and you’ll see a lot of changes in your usage. You may feel that typing the application names is quite hard at first, which is natural. Once you get used to the Linux then surely remembering Linux commands and the application names in HUD takes few seconds and in some cases you just have to type a letter or two.