Tips & Tricks for Your Daily Work
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Everyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.
Nearly everyone can use ; this is why the developers made it. There are no cryptic switches with which to cope, and few configuration files you need edit in ASCII style. However, there are some ways you can do your work more elegantly, saving you time for the truly important things, like .

Shortcut Table
Tab or Tab 	Cycle through the windows
Tab or Tab 	Cycle through your desktops
F2 	Mini Command line
F3 	Window Menu
F4 	Close the current window
F{1..8} 	Switch to a specific desktop
Esc 	Window destroyer (every window you click on will be destroyed). Press this key combination again to cancel the killer cursor.
Backspace 	This exits (without saving!) Use this as a last resort
Numpad + 	Cycles to the next screen resolution. You need to configure this in your configuration for it to work.
Numpad - 	Cycles to the previous screen resolution. You need to configure this in your configuration for it to work.

Mouse Techniques
Clicking on the border or the titlebar 	
Left 	Activates and raises the window.
Middle 	Lowers the window
Right 	Shows the Window menu if the window is active, otherwise activates the window.
Doubleclick on the window title 	Shades the window (rolls it up so only the titlebar is visible).
Drag on the titlebar 	Moves the window around.
Drag on corners or edges 	Resizes the window.
Left Button 	Moves the window around.
Middle Button 	Raises the window.
Right Button 	Resizes the window in the direction you drag the mouse.
Click on the Icon on the top left 	Close the application
Click on the Sticky Button 	toggles sticky
Clicking on Maximize 	
Left 	Maximizes the window
Middle 	Maximizes only vertically
Right 	Maximizes horizontally