Window Management
| Action | Windows | Mac OS | KDE | GNOME | Emacs |
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| Pop up window menu | Alt+Space | Alt+F3 | Alt+Space | Ctrl+`, then b | |
| Close the focused window | ⇧ Shift+Alt+F4 or Ctrl+F4 or Ctrl+W or Alt+Space then C | ⌘ Cmd+W | Alt+F4 | Alt+F4 | Ctrl+x, then k |
| Restore the focused window to its previous size | Alt+Space then R | Alt+F5 | Ctrl+x, then r, then j, then letter of the window state register. | ||
| Move the focused window | Alt+Space then M then Arrow Keys and ↵ Enter(to save location) | Alt+Mouse /
Alt+F3 then M then Arrow Keys |
Alt+Mouse /
Alt+F7 then Arrow Keys |
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| Resize the focused window | Alt+Space then S then Arrow Keys | Alt+F3 then S then Arrow Keys | Alt+F8 then Arrow Keys | Ctrl+x, then ^ vertically | |
| Hide the focused window | ⌘ Cmd+H | Meta+x, then bury-buffer RET, then Ret | |||
| Hide all except the focused window | ⌘ Cmd+⌥ Option+H | ||||
| Minimize the focused window | Alt+Space then N, or ⊞ Win+↓ (Windows 7 and Vista Home Premium) | ⌘ Cmd+M | Alt+F3 then N | Alt+F9 | Meta+x, then bury-buffer RET, then Ret |
| Maximize the focused window | Alt+Space then X, or ⊞ Win+↑ (Windows 7 only) | Alt+F3 then X | Alt+F10 | Ctrl+x, then 1 | |
| Maximize horizontally | Available, but no default | Available, but no default | |||
| Maximize vertically | ⊞ Win+⇧ Shift+↑ (Windows 7 only) | Available, but no default | Available, but no default | ||
| Minimize all | ⊞ Win+M or ⊞ Win+D | ⌘ Cmd+Alt+M | Available, but no default | Ctrl+Alt+D | |
| Minimize all non focused windows | ⊞ Win+Home (Windows 7 only) | Available, but no default | |||
| Undo minimize all | ⇧ Shift+⊞ Win+M | Available, but no default | Ctrl+Alt+D | ||
| Switch fullscreen/normal size | F11 | ⌘ Cmd+⇧ Shift+F | F11 | F11 | |
| Show the window in full screen mode, with no border, menubar, toolbar or statusbar | Depends on application, system default: ⌘ Cmd+CTRL+F | Ctrl+⇧ Shift+F | Ctrl+F11 | ||
| Rollup/down window | Available, but no default | Alt+F12 | |||
| Show all open windows | ⊞ Win+Tab ↹ | F9 or
Move mouse pointer to configured hot corner or active screen corner |
⊞ Win works per desktop on Gnome 3+ | Ctrl+x, then Ctrl+b | |
| Show all windows of current application | F3 or
Move mouse pointer to configured hot corner or active screen corner |
Ctrl+` | Ctrl+x, then Ctrl+b | ||
| Show all workspaces | F8 or
Move mouse pointer to configured hot corner or active screen corner |
⊞ Win then mouse over the desktop bar on the right edge of the screen | |||
| Move window to left/right/up/down workspace | ⊞ Win+←/→ (Windows 7 only) | Available, but no default | Ctrl+Alt+⇧ Shift+
← / → / ↑ / ↓ |
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| Move window between multiple monitors | ⊞ Win+⇧ Shift+←/→ (Windows 7 only) | ||||
| Move window to workspace n | Available, but no default | ||||
| Switch to next/previous workspace list | Available, but no default | ||||
| Go to workspace n | Ctrl+n | Ctrl+Fn | |||
| Go to left/right/up/down workspace | Ctrl+← /
Ctrl+→ / Ctrl+↑ / Ctrl+↓ (OS X 10.5 to 10.6), Ctrl+← / Ctrl+→ (OS X 10.7) |
Ctrl+Alt+← /
→ / ↑ / ↓ |
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| Show / hide desktop | ⊞ Win+D | F11 or
Move mouse pointer to configured hot corner or active screen corner |
Ctrl+Alt+D | Ctrl+Alt+D user specific, no default | |
| Activate window demanding attention | |||||
| Quit application of current window | Alt+F4 or Ctrl+F4 varies | ⌘ Cmd+Q | Ctrl+Alt+Esc | q | |
| Close dialog | Esc | Esc | |||
| Open/Focus (preview) pinned program on the taskbar | ⊞ Win+(#) where "#" is the position of the program on the Windows 7 Taskbar (Windows 7 only) | ||||
| Open new program window of pinned program in Quick Launch | ⊞ Win+(#) where "#" is the position of the program on the Quick Launch toolbar (Windows Vista and 7) | ||||
| Open new program window of the pinned program on the taskbar (if program is already opened) | ⊞ Win+⇧ Shift+(#) where "#" is the position of the program on the Windows 7 Taskbar (Windows 7 only) | ||||
| Focus the first taskbar entry. Pressing again will cycle through them | ⊞ Win+T, you can ←→ back and forth. Hold ⇧ Shift to cycle backwards (Windows 7 only) | ||||
| Peek at the desktop | ⊞ Win+Space (Windows 7 only) | F11 or
Move mouse pointer to configured hot corner or active screen corner |
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| Bring gadgets to the front of the Z-order and cycle between gadgets | ⊞ Win+G (Windows Vista,7) or ⊞ Win+Space (Vista only, no cycling) | ||||
| External display options (mirror, extend desktop, etc.) | ⊞ Win+P (Windows 7 only) |
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