Razzi's guide to Gnome

Gnome is the graphical shell that comes with Debian and Ubuntu by default.

Usually I use keyd to configure keybindings, but the most important keybindings can be configured without any external programs:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources xkb-options "['altwin:swap_alt_win', 'caps:ctrl_modifier']"

You can also customize keyboard shortcuts directly in the Settings app under Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > View and Customize Shortcuts.

For example here are some of my Window-related shortcuts:

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