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- <sect1 id="config-keybindings">
- <title>Keybindings</title>
- <para>
- Keybindings allow you to use keystroke combinations on the
- keyboard to help make your navigation in your desktop environment
- faster and easier. Using keybindings, you can sometimes get your
- computer usage to be so fast and efficient, that your friends are
- impressed while watching you work.
- </para>
- <para>
- The most common and well known keybindings are the Save and Quit
- keybindings: Ctrl + S and Ctrl + Q in <application>Microsoft
- Windows</application> respectively.
- </para>
- <para>
- <application>Gnome</application> allows you to configure what
- keybindings are used in numerous places in your desktop.
- </para>
- <sect2 id="config-keybindings-ui">
- <title>The Keybindings Interface</title>
- <para>
- The keybindings interface is quite simple. It has one option to
- set the keybinding scheme to use in applications. You have two
- options: Default and emacs.
- </para>
- <para>
- Default uses Control S and other bindings which are firmilar to
- most users from the <application>Microsoft Windows</application>
- operating system.
- </para>
- <para>
- emacs is a popular text editor for Linux and Unix based
- systems. emacs uses different keybindings than that of
- default. For example, save is Control X S.
- </para>
- </sect2>
- </sect1>