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Manjaro Linux keyboard shortcuts
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First published at 3/15/2023 on
https://defkey.com/manjaro-linux-20-shortcuts

Manjaro Linux is a free and open-source Linux distribution based on the
Arch Linux operating system. It was first released on July 10, 2011. As of
this list prepared, the latest version was 20.2 which was released on
December 24, 2022.

Manjaro Linux has 43 shortcuts and we have listed all of them below.



Kernel
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These shortcuts  can be use for recovering from a unresponsive system or
debugging.

To use these shortcuts, they must first be activated with either sysctl
kernel.sysrq=1 or echo "1" > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq

Alt + Sys Rq + R        Unraw - Take control of keyboard back from X.
Alt + Sys Rq + E        Terminate - Send SIGTERM to all processes, allowing them to terminate
gracefully
Alt + Sys Rq + I        Kill - Send SIGKILL to all processes, forcing them to terminate immediately
Alt + Sys Rq + S        Sync - Flush data to disk
Alt + Sys Rq + U        Unmount - Unmount and remount all file systems read-only
Alt + Sys Rq + B        Reboot


Terminal: Virtual console
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Ctrl + Alt + Del        Reboots Computer (specified by the symlink
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ctrl-alt-del.target)
Alt + F1                (F2, F3, …) Switch to n-th virtual console
Alt + Left arrow        Switch to previous virtual console
Alt + Right arrow       Switch to next virtual console
Scroll Lock             When Scroll Lock is activated, input/output is locked
Shift + Page Up / Down  Scroll the console buffer up/down
Ctrl + C                Kill the current task
Ctrl + D                Insert an EOF
Ctrl + Z                Pause the current Task


Terminal: Readline
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Ctrl + L                Clear the screen

Cursor Movement

Ctrl + B                Move cursor one character to the left
Ctrl + F                Move cursor one character to the right
Alt + B                 Move cursor one word to the left
Alt + F                 Move cursor one word to the right
Ctrl + A                Move cursor to start of the line
Ctrl + E                Move cursor to end of the line

Copy & Paste

Ctrl + U                Cut everything from line start to cursor
Ctrl + K                Cut everything from the cursor to end of the line
Alt + D                 Cut the current word after the cursor
Ctrl + W                Cut the current word before the cursor
Ctrl + Y                Paste the previous cut text
Alt + Y                 Paste the second latest cut text
Alt + Ctrl + Y          Paste the first argument of the previous command
Alt + ./_               Paste the last argument of the previous command

History

Ctrl + P                Move to the previous line
Ctrl + N                Move to the next line
Ctrl + S                Search
Ctrl + R                Reverse search
Ctrl + J                End search
Ctrl + G                Abort search (restores original line)
Alt + R                 Restores all changes made to line

Completion

Tab                     Auto-complete a name
Alt + ?                 List all possible completions
Alt + *                 Insert all possible completions


X11
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Ctrl + Alt + F1         Switch to n-th virtual console
Shift + Insert          Paste text from the PRIMARY buffer
Right click             Paste text from the PRIMARY buffer

By default, Qt maps Shift+Insert to CLIPBOARD instead of the PRIMARY buffer

Source: Manjaro Linux


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