Thursday, August 21, 2014

Special keys keybindings on a Thinkpad running Xubuntu 14.04

IBM Thinkpads came with tons of extra buttons affectionately knows as special keys. See here for a full list of the keys and the actions they triggers. All the keys work out of the box except for the Access IBM next to the Esc key and the Previous and Next Page keys on either side of the up arrow key.

For as long as I can remember I've key those keys to do the following.

Pushing the Access IBM key launches my terminal. I'm always in the terminal, so this is convenient and easy.

Pushing the Previous Page key moves to the workspace on the left, while the Next Page key moves to the workspace on the right. I work with many applications at a time with lots of opened windows, so having multiple workspaces and an easy way to access them makes life much easier.

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