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Type : System
Operating System : All Linux 

This article present a selection of shortcut for Linux environment

ctrl Alt Fn (n=1..6)
Switch to the nth text terminal.

tty
Print the name of the terminal in which you are typing this command.

ctrl Alt F7
Switch to the first GUI terminal (if X-windows is running on this terminal).

ctrl Alt Fn (n=7..12)
Switch to the nth GUI terminal (if a GUI terminal is running on screen n-1). On default, nothing is running on terminals
8 to 12, but you can run another server there.

Tab
(In a text terminal) Autocomplete the command  if there is only one option, or else show all the available options.

ArrowUp
Scroll and edit the command history. Press to execute.

PgUp
Scroll terminal output up. Work also at the login prompt, so you can scroll through your bootup messages.

Shift PgUp
Scroll terminal output down.

Ctrl Alt +
Switch the screen resolution define in the x windows config file.
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" "512x384" "480x300" "400x300" "1152x864"

Ctrl Alt -
(in X-windows) Change to the previous X-server resolution.

Ctrl Alt bkp Space
(in X-windows) Kill the current X-windows server. Use if the X-windows server crushes and cannot be exited normally.

Ctrl Alt Del
Shut down the system and reboot. This is the normal shutdown command for a user at the text-mode console. Don't just press the "reset" button for shutdown!

Ctrl Shift l
Clear you shell screen like the clear command

Ctrl c
Kill the current process (mostly in the text mode for small applications).

Ctrl d
Log out from the current terminal.  See also the next command.

Ctrl d
Send [End-of-File] to the current process. Don't press it twice else you also log out (see the previous command).

Ctrl s
Stop the transfer to the terminal.

Ctrl q
Resume the transfer to the terminal. Try if your terminal mysteriously stops responding.

Ctrl z
Send the current process to the background, send bg in the console to run the proccess in background

MiddleMouseButton
Paste the text which is currently highlighted somewhere else. This is the normal "copy-paste" operation in Linux.

~
(tilde) My home directory (normally the directory /home/my_login_name).

.
(dot) Current directory.

..
(two dots) Directory parent to the current one.