Xubuntu Tweaks

My I recently upgraded my office computer to Ubuntu 13.04. Rebooting into the Unity environment was a total failure seemingly due to some graphics card/X11 issues. So I installed the xubuntu-desktop package instead of fooling around with graphics drivers/xorg.conf (relevant xkcd).

These are a few tweaks and hotkey changes that I made to match (standard?) Ubuntu hotkeys.

Ctrl + Alt + t to launch terminal¶

menu > Settings Manager > Keyboard > Application Shortcuts > Add

I chose to use the native xfce4-terminal so just enter that and bind it to your desired hotkey.

Application launcher takes 5 seconds to launch...¶

menu > Settings Manager > Keyboard > Application Shortcuts

At the bottom is xfrun4. Select it and change the command to xfrun4 --disable-server (source).

Ctrl + Alt + l lock workspace¶

menu > Settings Manager > Keyboard > Application Shortcuts

Change xflock4 to the desired hotkey.

Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Arrow to Move window to Arrow workspace¶

menu > Settings Manager > Window Manager > Keyboard

Find Move window to * workspace then bind as desired.