Question

I know about the

[ctrl] + [alt] + t

[ctrl] + f

[alt] + f1

shortcuts to bring up the standard system browsing tools, and I use them often. I am not satisfied with them (except the terminal…of course).

My question is: is there an equivalent to the Window’s shortcut

[windows-key] + e

that brings up the “Computer” window? Having access to the GUI based file browser is nice, especially when I am literally browsing for a file in an unknown location.

pwd
ls
cd

gets a little old when you’re not 100% sure what you’re looking for.

Please answer the question in a manner that I could add your tip to the keyboard shortcut menu, which is found by running

gnome-keybinding-properties

at the command line on debian-type distributions. If you’ve got something I could grab from synaptic, I’d appreciate that as well.

Thanks.

p.s. I hate the mouse. Please don’t tell me to double click the Computer icon on the desktop.

Answer 1

I guess your file manager is nautilus since you mentioned gnome.
can you add custom keyboard shotcut? if yes, add this command to a custom shortcut.

nautilus computer:///

btw
if you really hate mouse, you would like to try ranger. http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/ranger