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This document provides keyboard navigation shortcuts for Ubuntu 17.04 for users who cannot use a mouse or prefer keyboard navigation. It details shortcuts for navigating interfaces, the desktop, windows, and more. Shortcuts include using Tab and arrow keys to move between controls, Alt+Tab to switch windows, Ctrl+Alt+arrow keys to switch workspaces, and Alt+F7/F8 to move and resize windows.

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Keyboard Navigation: O Cial Documentation Community Help Wiki Contribute

This document provides keyboard navigation shortcuts for Ubuntu 17.04 for users who cannot use a mouse or prefer keyboard navigation. It details shortcuts for navigating interfaces, the desktop, windows, and more. Shortcuts include using Tab and arrow keys to move between controls, Alt+Tab to switch windows, Ctrl+Alt+arrow keys to switch workspaces, and Alt+F7/F8 to move and resize windows.

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Ubuntu 17.04 Ubuntu Desktop Guide Universal access Mobility impairments
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Keyboard navigation
This page details keyboard navigation for people who cannot use a mouse or other pointing device, or who want to use a keyboard as much as
possible. For keyboard shortcuts that are useful to all users, see Useful keyboard shortcuts instead.

If you cannot use a pointing device like a mouse, you can control the mouse pointer using the numeric keypad on your keyboard. See Click
and move mouse pointer using the keypad for details.

Navigate user interfaces

Tab and Ctrl+Tab Move keyboard focus between dierent controls. Ctrl+Tab moves between groups of controls, such as from a sidebar to
the main content. Ctrl+Tab can also break out of a control that uses Tab itself, such as a text area.

Hold down Shift to move focus in reverse order.

Arrow keys Move selection between items in a single control, or among a set of related controls. Use the arrow keys to focus buttons
in a toolbar, select items in a list or icon view, or select a radio button from a group.

In a tree view, use the left and right arrow keys to collapse and expand items with children.

Ctrl+Arrow keys In a list or icon view, move the keyboard focus to another item without changing which item is selected.

Shift+Arrow keys In a list or icon view, select all items from the currently selected item to the newly focused item.

Space Activate a focused item such as a button, check box, or list item.

Ctrl+Space In a list or icon view, select or deselect the focused item without deselecting other items.

Alt Hold down the Alt key to reveal accelerators: underlined letters on menu items, buttons, and other controls. Press Alt
plus the underlined letter to activate a control, just as if you had clicked on it.

Esc Exit a menu, popup, switcher, or dialog window.

F10 Open the rst menu on the menu bar of a window. Use the arrow keys to navigate the menus.

Shift+F10 or the Pop up the context menu for the current selection, as if you had right-clicked.
Menu key

Ctrl+F10 In the le manager, pop up the context menu for the current folder, as if you had right-clicked on the background and not
on any item.

Ctrl+PageUp and In a tabbed interface, switch to the tab to the left or right.
Ctrl+PageDown

Navigate the desktop

Alt+Tab Quickly switch between windows. Hold down Shift for reverse order.

Alt+` Switch between windows from the same application, or from the selected application after Alt+Tab.

This shortcut uses ` on US keyboards, where the ` key is above Tab. On all other keyboards, the shortcut is Alt plus
whatever key is above Tab.

Ctrl+Alt+Arrow keys Switch between workspaces.

Navigate windows

Alt+F4 Close the current window.

Ctrl+Super+ Restore a maximized window to its original size.

Alt+F7 Move the current window. Press Alt+F7, then use the arrow keys to move the window. Press Enter to nish
moving the window, or Esc to return it to its original place.

Alt+F8 Resize the current window. Press Alt+F8, then use the arrow keys to resize the window. Press Enter to nish
resizing the window, or Esc to return it to its original size.
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Arrow keys Move the current window to a dierent workspace.

Ctrl+Super+ Maximize a window.

Ctrl+Super+ Maximize a window vertically along the left side of the screen.

Ctrl+Super+ Maximize a window vertically along the right side of the screen.

Alt+Space Pop up the window menu, as if you had right-clicked on the titlebar.

More Information

Keyboard Input sources, cursor blinking, super key, keyboard accessibility


Mobility impairments

See Also

Useful keyboard shortcuts Get around the desktop using the keyboard.

The material in this document is available under a free license, see Legal for details.
For information on contributing see the Ubuntu Documentation Team wiki page. To report errors in this documentation, le a bug.

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