Minimize from Keyboard

MartinRinehart

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Sunday, May 27th 2007, 1:20pm

I want to minimize the current window. Can I do this from the keyboard?

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MartinRinehart

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Sunday, May 27th 2007, 1:42pm

RE: Minimize from Keyboard

Found one!
Alt+F3 opens the menu you'd get by clicking top-left window corner.
N is the shortcut to miNimize.

Does the Alt+F3 menu have a name? Is there a single-key minimize option?

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Monday, May 28th 2007, 1:41am

Alt+F3 is the Window Menu or Window Operations Menu.
You can set a shortcut for minimizing the current window in KControl -> Regional & Accessibility -> Keyboard Shortcuts

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Monday, May 28th 2007, 11:33am

Thanks!

I see mouse gestures (which I loved in Opera) in khotkeys. I'm having trouble getting them to work. Any hints?

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Tuesday, May 29th 2007, 2:14pm

khotkeys

KHotKeys (don't use caps to run it) looks great but I've now tried and failed at both mouse gestures and and keyboard commands.

Can anyone help me do the following?

Alt+F1 thru Alt+F5 are preconfigured. Good. Now I want to define Alt+F6 to minimize the currently active window.

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mdcg2004

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Sunday, August 12th 2007, 12:34am

Just as jucato wrote: KControl -> Regional & Accessibility -> Keyboard Shortcuts
Then you highlight the command you want, click on the button button, there you're allowed to type in your shortcut, you may type in an alternative shortcut, and there you go! I tried your question on my computer and there was no problem.

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MartinRinehart

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Monday, August 13th 2007, 9:26am

What shortcut?

Thanks!

You said, "type in your shortcut". Exactly what would I type for minimizing the current window?

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mdcg2004

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Tuesday, August 14th 2007, 12:07am

I attached a picture where you can see the details. It's quite easy.
You just click on the places (text on quite dark light blue)
When you click on the shortcut button (here button with "Windows+KP_Subtract" in the section "Shortcut for Selected Action") the dialog in the middle pops up.
Here in this example there is a shortcut already defined ("Windows+KP_Subtract"). You just hover with your mouse (no clicking!) on the area, where you can see "Windows+KP_Subtract" in the pop-up-window (in your desktop maybe it's empty like in the place of the alternate shortcut. While hovering you hit your shortcut (e.g. Alt-F6 = holding down Alt and while your holding pressing on F6). Voila! You don't have to type in the shortcut (so no A,l,t,+,F,6 typing!). If all goes well you see now your shortcut for minimizing the actual window (instead of "Windows+KP_Subtract" you may see "Alt+F6")

I hope you succeed.

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MartinRinehart

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Tuesday, August 14th 2007, 5:47pm

Your screen shot was very good. But ...

Different versions here.

Mine looks like these, but Alt+F6 remains a NOP.

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mdcg2004

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Tuesday, August 14th 2007, 10:20pm

If you start the control center like this:

kcontrol (type it in the an xterm for example)

then you get the look that I have. I see you use Linspire, maybe there is already a shortcut to Alt-F6. Normally KDE tells you, if the shortcut is already in use when you assign it something. Look at the the shortcuts already assigned. Maybe you discover "your" shortcut where you didn't expect

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MartinRinehart

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Wednesday, August 15th 2007, 6:31pm

Nope.

Same result, launching kcontrol directly.

By the by, I only recently learned about Xterm. My distro defaults to Konsole for terminal work. But I understood you nonetheless.

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mdcg2004

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Wednesday, August 15th 2007, 9:38pm

you're right. I tried it out and "nope". I don't know why this is so, maybe KDE reserves it (maybe google helps out). Why not using "Win+KP_Subtract" (i.e. Windows-Key with "minus" on the numeric keypad) as an alternative if you have a keyboard with a Win-Key?

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MartinRinehart

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Thursday, August 16th 2007, 10:03am

Still nope

Another NOP.

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mdcg2004

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Thursday, August 16th 2007, 12:58pm

hmm, strange. I have no problems with it. Tried another keyboard layout in KDE?

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MartinRinehart

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Thursday, August 16th 2007, 6:22pm

Keyboard layouts?

Didn't know there were multiple keyboard layouts.

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mdcg2004

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Thursday, August 16th 2007, 11:30pm

I attached a shot.

kcontrol > Regional & Accessibility > Keyboard Layout > Keyboard model:

There you choose your model. In most of the cases the standard one with the 104 or 105 keys is enough. But if you have something special you may have a look there.

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MartinRinehart

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Friday, August 17th 2007, 10:45am

Tried that.

OK, tried that. Was a Linspire Generic. Tried Acer, Dell, 104-key generic.

Same for all: Alt+F6 and Win+KP_minus (triggers for minimize active window) are still NOPs.

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mdcg2004

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Friday, August 17th 2007, 8:52pm

With the 104-key-layout you may get insufficient support of your windows-key (I think so). You could edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf partly (if you use your keyboard per PS/2):

Source code

...
...
Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"    # maybe your layout name is different
...
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
...
EndSection
...
...
Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "en"   # or "us"? I don't use both of them
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
EndSection
...
...

But with this you should avoid using the layout thing with KDE. Try it out, if this time the Windows+KP_Subtract functions.

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