{"id":222760,"date":"2026-03-12T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/7-essential-keyboard-shortcuts-every-linux-mint-user-should-know\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T10:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:25:15","slug":"7-essential-keyboard-shortcuts-every-linux-mint-user-should-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/7-essential-keyboard-shortcuts-every-linux-mint-user-should-know\/","title":{"rendered":"7 essential keyboard shortcuts every Linux Mint user should know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/essential-keyboard-shortcuts-linux-mint-users-should-know\/\">7 essential keyboard shortcuts every Linux Mint user should know<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/essential-keyboard-shortcuts-linux-mint-users-should-know\/\">https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/essential-keyboard-shortcuts-linux-mint-users-should-know\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-12 09:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.howtogeek.com\">www.howtogeek.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Linux Mint is one of the most user-friendly Linux distros available, and by memorizing a few simple shortcuts, you can make it even better.<\/p>\n<p>These are 7 shortcuts I use whenever I&#8217;m using Linux Mint.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"press-the-super-key\">\n                        Press the Super key<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"a-button-to-open-everything-else\">\n            A button to open everything else<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>The single most useful shortcut in Linux Mint involves only one key: The Super Key. If you&#8217;re using most keyboards, that&#8217;ll correspond to the Windows Key.<\/p>\n<p>        Credit:\u00a0Patrick Campanale \/ How-To Geek<\/p>\n<p> Once you have the Menu open, you can start typing to search for applications, files, system settings and tools, and more.<\/p>\n<p>        <img width=\"825\" height=\"717\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A screenshot of Linux Mint's Start Menu options\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static0.howtogeekimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a-screenshot-of-linux-mint-s-start-menu-options.png?q=70&#038;fit=crop&#038;w=825&#038;dpr=1\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.howtogeekimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a-screenshot-of-linux-mint-s-start-menu-options.png?q=70&#038;fit=crop&#038;w=825&#038;dpr=1\" class=\"img-brightness-opt-out\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It is one of the most convenient menus in Mint, and it is the primary way I interact with the OS. I don&#8217;t even keep icons on my desktop because pressing the <strong>Super key<\/strong> and typing <strong>Firefox <\/strong>is just as fast as minimizing my current window and looking around the desktop for an icon.<\/p>\n<p>It is also one of the features that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/essential-keyboard-shortcuts-linux-mint-users-should-know\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 essential keyboard shortcuts every Linux Mint user should know https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/essential-keyboard-shortcuts-linux-mint-users-should-know\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-12 09:30:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.howtogeekimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/linux-mint-logo-and-the-linux-mascot-with-a-magnifying-glass-beside-it.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71,110],"class_list":["post-222760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-linux-mint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222762,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222760\/revisions\/222762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}