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Using Your Keyboard Instead Of Your Mouse

Explains how you can navigate a web page and Linux with the keyboard.

Websites
Often websites are designed without thinking about the needs of non-mouse users, for example people with RSI who can only use an ergonomic keyboard to surf the web. This section explains the ways you can navigate a web page with just the keyboard and explains how special shortcuts known as 'access keys' can make keyboard navigation much easier.

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Most people think that Linux has to be operated with the mouse and that, if you cannot use a mouse, you cannot use Linux.

This is not the case. In fact most of the Linux desktops such as Gnome and KDE have very good keyboard supports - also using the keyboard can often be faster and easier than using the mouse.

The following list some common keyboard shortcuts used in Linux desktops Gnome and KDE:

 

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