Reading notes: gnome desktop user guide

• Overall
  • Shift and Alt is often used with mouse to change the default behavior.
• Keyboard shortcut
  • Ctrl+Alt+D: show desktop
  • Ctrl+Alt+Tab: switch focus between desktop and panels
  • Alt+F9: Minimize window
• In Open/Save File Dialog
  • Show Hidden Files can be toggle with right click
  • Bookmarks can be added/removed
• When moving a panel object, alt and shift key can be used to change movement mode (switched, free, push).
• In Nautilus spatial mode, the folder can be opened with parent folder closed with "shift" pressed. I don't like leaving too much folder windows open or closing them by hand when navigating in file hierarchy.
• In Nautilus sptial mode, the browser mode can be entered with right click menu: "Browser Folder" on folder.
• Search can be saved with "File -> Save Search" in Nautilus.
• In Nautilus icon view, items can be sorted with "View -> Arrange Items -> ...".
• In Nautilus, "glob" can be used to select items with "Edit -> Select Items Matching ...".
• $HOME/Templates can be used to place arbitrary document templates, which can be used in "Create Document" menu in Nautilus.
• Nautilus sripts are placed in "$HOME/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts". Some special environment variables are used to passes some infomation.
• Custom keyboard shortcut can be added in "Keyboard Shortcuts" preference dialog directly, need not gconf-editor.

Gnome notify in command line

Method is copied from somebody's blog, can't remember who.

#!/usr/bin/python

import pynotify
import sys

def notify(title="Notify", message=""):
    n = pynotify.Notification(title, message)
    n.show()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    pynotify.init("cli notify")
    if len(sys.argv) > 1:
        title = sys.argv[1]
        msg = " ".join(sys.argv[2:])
        notify(title, msg)
    else:
        notify()