![]() The easiest way I found to customize these shortcuts was to use the desktop utility Autokey. So if you are dual booting elementary on a Mac laptop, there is no way to use the beginning and end of line keyboard navigation. And beyond preference, a further reason to modify them is that some Apple laptops do not have and keys. These shortcuts unfortunately cannot be modified under Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts. When on MacOS, I *all the time* use the text navigation shortcuts, for example to go to the beginning of a line, to move one word to the left, to select the word to the left, etc. ![]() The one customization that took a bit more work was setting the keyboard shortcuts for text navigation. There are several other options for hot corner actions in elementary, and there is even an option to execute a custom command, so in a lot of ways, the possibilities are many for users of hot corners. This option in elementary has a much more intuitive name, which again is one of the reasons I find it so user friendly, even more so than MacOS in a lot of ways. ![]() ![]() In elementary, you can get a very similar behavior by setting a hot corner as “Show all windows”. You can find these options in Settings > Desktop > Multitasking.īack in MacOS, I liked setting a hot corner to “Mission Control”, which displayed all the windows and workspaces. Fortunately, elementary OS makes it easy to enable and customize hot corners. Hot CornersĪs a longtime Mac user, I got accustomed to having hot corners, which means that moving the cursor into the corner of the screen triggers some action. This post will cover a few ideas on how to tweak elementary OS to match some of the patterns that users experience on a Mac. However, there are always some preferences that one will like to adjust, and especially for those coming from MacOS, it can be more comfortable if some of the keyboard shortcuts and mappings are similar. The elementary OS team is very thoughtful about the default workflow, and so I would recommend new users to this operating system to try using the default settings before making too many tweaks.
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