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In Gnome the show desktop is by default mapped to ‘Ctrl + Alt + d’, if you would like to change it to something else the easiest way out is using the ‘System –> Preferences –> Keyboard shortcuts’. Though this is the easiest way those of you who are like me, would like to use the ‘Windows Key + d’.

This is not possible using the ‘Keyboard Shortcuts’ window as it shows ‘Windows Key’ as ‘Super L’ and does not allow to enter any additional key, so to acheive the ‘Windows Key + d’ for ‘Show Desktop’ you would have to run the following command in the terminal to get that done:

gconftool-2 -t str --set /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/show_desktop "<Mod4>d"

Thats it, hope you found this useful, let me know by writing down a comment below.

You are on the Gnome desktop and would like to get to a particular location on the disk, how would you do it. I am not sure of you, but for me it was first clicking on the home icon and then typing the path in the address bar of nautilus. Sometimes I also used the ‘Alt+F2′ option to get there.

But did you know that if you are on desktop you can use the quick access key ‘/’ to go to any location. Quite cool huh!! I was surprised at this useful feature. Do you know of any such hidden ways, let me know. Hope you found this interesting enough.