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Idea #7130: Shortcut key to show gnome-system-monitor, Ctrl+Alt+Delete

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #84: System Monitor Difficult to Find.
Written by Wikzo the 16 Apr 08 at 19:19. Category: Accessibility. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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In Windows you can use Ctrl + Alt + Delete to see what programs and resources that's running (and then eventually kill it or something else).

It would be great with the same shortcut in Ubuntu to show the gnome-system-monitor.

I made the shortcut myself, but then it was broken because of Compiz Fusion (upgrading from 7.04 to 7.10).

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Written by Wikzo the 16 Apr 08 at 19:19.
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Hawke wrote on the 16 Apr 08 at 21:41
A good idea (add the shortcut), but the shortcut you mention is wrong! The correct one is Ctrl+Shift+Esc.

shootfast wrote on the 17 Apr 08 at 03:10
I second Ctrl+Shift+Esc

thebigbluecan wrote on the 17 Apr 08 at 07:43
I third Ctrl+Shift+Esc

xapient wrote on the 17 Apr 08 at 08:09
in KDE it is just Ctrl+Esc - it does the job

wiz wrote on the 17 Apr 08 at 09:19
gnome-system-monitor is a power hog by itself. That just wouldn't work if your system is already at the edge.

freex wrote on the 17 Apr 08 at 15:46
YES YES YES +1

Crandom wrote on the 17 Apr 08 at 18:22
+1, but with Ctrl + Shift + Esc.

Delever wrote on the 18 Apr 08 at 08:03
Ctrl + Alt + Del just sounds wrong for Ubuntu :)

Ctrl+Esc, Ctrl+Shift+Esc, etc. would be nice.

noodlesgc wrote on the 18 Apr 08 at 17:23
Yeah, Ctrl + Alt + Del and i will head over to a different distro. Aren't there any hotkey managers to do this already?

Gwador wrote on the 19 Apr 08 at 23:42
Compiz can do it with any classic key combination you like... Still Gnome "Key Bindings" should be grown up to something more powerful in terms of programmable actions list. Not everyone want compiz, after all. In KDE things look a little more powerful, yet complicated.

Why not let "Key Bindings" to have custom commands fed to command line with a key shortcut, too? Why going for primitive copy? Make it better, more flexible, more powerful, more customizable, yet keep it simple and sensible while in default mode! Vote for Ctrl+Esc for default, and against cloning MS unconfigurable, violent, dictating style in general.

daretoeatapeach wrote on the 20 Apr 08 at 01:06
+1. I'm running kbuntu now on a computer with a memory leak and I use the process table so often that I have added to the quicklauncher.


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