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Desktop interaction quick reference

This page is a work in progress!

Keyboard shortcuts

Key	Action
F12	Suspend desktop and access the command line
Shift-F12	Bring icon bar to front/back of window stack
Ctrl-F12	Open a Task Window
Shift-Ctrl-F12	Shut down the machine
Alt-Break	Brings up the application termination dialogue

Keyboard shortcuts – Filer

Key	Action
Return	Open/run selection
Backspace	Open parent directory
Ctrl-A	Select All
Ctrl-F	Cycle display format
Ctrl-R,	Rename
Alt-click name	Rename
Ctrl-S	Cycle sort order
Ctrl-W	Set current directory
Escape,	Clear selection
Ctrl-Z	Clear selection
Ctrl-K	Delete selection
Shift-Tab	Switch to next filer window
Ctrl-Tab	Switch to previous filer window
Ctrl-F2	Close window

Keyboard shortcuts – NetSurf

Key	Action
Ctrl-Q	Zoom out
Ctrl-W	Zoom in
Ctrl-R	Reload current page
Ctrl-S	Save current page
Ctrl-F	Search on current page
Ctrl-N	Open a new window
F2	Enter a new URL
Ctrl-U	Clear current content of URL input bar while it has focus

Window interactions

Icon

Name

Functions

Back

Select-click		Push to back
Adjust-click		Pull to front
Shift-Select-click		Push back by one window
Shift-Adjust-click		Pull forward by one window

Select-click		Close window
Adjust-click		Close window and open/front parent
Shift-Select-click		Iconise the window
Shift-Adjust-click		Open/front parent window

Title bar

Select-click		Pull to front
Select-drag		Pull to front and move window
Adjust-drag		Move window without changing window order

Iconise

Select-click		Iconise the window
Adjust-click		Iconise the window (identical to Select-click)

Toggle size

Select-click		Toggle between full size and last size
Adjust-click		Toggle size without changing window order
Shift-Select-click		Toggle size without obscuring icon bar
Shift-Adjust-click		Toggle size without obscuring icon bar or changing window order

Scroll arrow

Select-click		Scroll in direction of arrow
Adjust-click		Scroll in opposite direction of arrow

Scrollbar well

Select-click		Scroll large amount (one page / window)
Adjust-click		Scroll large amount in opposite direction

Scrollbar slider

Select-drag		Scroll window in one axis
Adjust-drag		Scroll window up, down, left and right

Resize

Select-click		Pull to front
Select-drag		Pull to front and adjust size
Adjust-drag		Adjust size without changing window order

Icon bar interactions

Hovering the mouse at the bottom of the screen will temporarily bring the icon bar to the front if it’s hidden behind other windows.
If there are too many icons on the icon bar for them to all fit on screen at once, hovering the mouse at either end of the icon bar will scroll it in the corresponding direction.
Files can be dragged to the icon bar as an alternative method of running/opening them.

Revised on February 2, 2018 14:03:26 by Jeffrey Lee (213) (62.252.28.250)

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