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Bazon
March 26th, 2012, 07:42 AM
is there a terminal command for the "show activities" function in gnome shell?
i ask because my keyboard hasn't got a left windows key and setting another key in keyboard settings dosen't work either.
i had the same problem for showing the terminal, but creating a custom keyboard bind to the command "gnome-terminal" solved that issue, so i hope there is something for show activities as well...
thanks!

markbl
March 27th, 2012, 12:06 AM
According to http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/CheatSheet ALT+F1 should also open the activities overview but I have noticed that this shortcut (and the ALT+F2 run dialog) get disabled whenever you start Unity. So if ALT+F1 does not currently work for you then just restore that shortcut in the System Settings/Keyboard/Shortcuts/System settings.

Bazon
March 27th, 2012, 09:31 AM
According to http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/CheatSheet ALT+F1 should also open the activities overview but I have noticed that this shortcut (and the ALT+F2 run dialog) get disabled whenever you start Unity.
Thanks, but I prefer one-key-shortcuts for basic functions instead of two key commands.


So if ALT+F1 does not currently work for you then just restore that shortcut in the System Settings/Keyboard/Shortcuts/System settings.
Exactly that doesn't work for "show activities" (I hope it's called that way in english...). I can try to bind whatever I want, it doesn't work.

Meanwhile, I defined Caps-Lock as an extra Super Key (in keyboard options), that works, but I'm not so happy with that because I lose Caps Lock that way.