Red Hat Enterprise Linux keyboard shortcuts

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Zeynel -
6 years ago
- Shortcuts
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Ctrl + Alt + Backspace

Kill current X session. Use if normal exit procedure doesn't work

-1
Ctrl + Alt + Del

Shut down Red Hat Enterprise Linux system

-1
Ctrl + Alt + Fn

Switch screens

2
Ctrl + Alt + F1

Display an available screen (text-mode shell prompt screens)

2
or Ctrl + Alt + F2
0
or Ctrl + Alt + F3
-1
or Ctrl + Alt + F4
-1
or Ctrl + Alt + F5
0
or Ctrl + Alt + F6
1
Ctrl + Alt + F7

Display an available screen (graphical desktop screen)

1
Alt + Tab

Switch tasks in a graphical desktop environment

0
Ctrl + A

Move cursor to the beginning of a line. This works in most editors and URL field of Mozilla

0
Ctrl + E

Move cursor to the end of a line. This works in most editors and URL field of Mozilla

1
Ctrl + D

Log out and close shell prompt

0
Ctrl + L

Clear the terminal. It does the same thing as typing clear in the command line

-2
Ctrl + U

Clear the current line in terminal

1

Highlight the text

0

Paste highlighted text

0
+

In a system with a two-button mouse, if you configured your mouse to emulate a third mouse button, you can click both the left and right mouse buttons simultaneously to perform a paste

0
Tab

Auto complete the command. Use this while using shell prompt, after typing first a few characters of a command or a file name

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Scroll through command history

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Program information

Program name: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux (General)

Developed by Red Hat, this Linux distribution focuses on the commercial market. Red Hat Enterprise Linux has server and desktop versions for various processor architectures.

Web page: redhat.com

Last update: 11/27/2020 8:16 AM UTC

How easy to press shortcuts: 67%

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Shortcut count: 21

Platform detected: Windows or Linux


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? fur OP says : 2 years ago 1/21/2022 10:22 AM
I miss the undo keyboard shortcut, z does to seem to work