What keyboard shortcuts are available in Xfce4?

ForDummies

12/28/23, 1:37 AM

Note this is all apropos of Xubuntu, in spite of a mention of Mint Xfce. I actually use 3 OS types, and all three have this issue in one form or another.

I'm looking at Xfce4 documentation here of the Settings->Keyboard app, and I'm a bit puzzled about the keyboard shortcuts, even the ones in the illustration. Things like Super-P are clear enough once I understand that the Super key bears an MS Windows logo on my keyboard. But what are the ones that look like plain text:

Mail
WWW
Display
Print

and looking on my own machine running Xfce Linux Mint

Messenger
Calculator
Home Page
Music

Are there keyboards with keys bearing such names, or is something else going on?

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guiverc

12/28/23, 2:03 AM

Only Ubuntu and [official flavors of Ubuntu](https://ubuntu.com/download/flavours) are on-topic here, refer https://askubuntu.com/help/on-topic where you'll find other SE sites where you question will be welcome if you don't want to use a Linux Mint forum. (*One advantage of Ubuntu is it's many support options, you opted for Linux Mint so take advantage of its support options, or SE Unix & Linux* found in the on-topic link)

guiverc

12/28/23, 2:09 AM

FYI: the current HP keyboard I'm using has keys for "*Email*", "*Internet*" and more ... ie. *close* variations of what you're looking for but you're off-topic here with your OS, and your software stack includes an extra layer that Ubuntu has no need for (*runtime adjustments* as Linux Mint *devs* don't have upload privileges to Ubuntu repositories they rely on to alter packages so make changes at runtime)

ForDummies

12/28/23, 2:19 AM

Sorry about mentioning Mint. I get the same sort of thing in Xubuntu, including most of the same names (including Print, Messenger, Explorer, Mail, WWW, Music, Calculator) . I only put in the reference to OS when I realized I'd gone to the wrong console when filling in the examples. I run both temporarily.

guiverc

12/28/23, 2:48 AM

Your question mentions *nothing* on-topic (as written) for this site, as the only OS mentioned is an off-topic one for this site. Please refer to first comment.

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HolyBlackCat

12/30/23, 2:25 PM

Are there keyboards with keys bearing such names?

Yes. Normally they have icons on them, instead of names.

Sometimes those are separate keys, and sometimes they're combined with F1..12. In the latter case you have to press FnF1-12 to trigger such shortcut.

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