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GNOME is a beautiful, modern desktop environment focusing more on switching between applications.

But what if you want to minimize all the running windows and display just the desktop?

In Windows, you can do this by pressing Windows + D.

You can also use the same keyboard shortcuts in Ubuntu as it uses a customized GNOME desktop.

But vanilla GNOME has disabled the shortcut key to show the desktop for some reason.

When you press Super+D or Ctrl+Super+D, nothing happens.

If you want to see the desktop, you’ll have to minimize all running windows one by one. It is not convenient especially if you have several application windows open.

If you prefer the minimize to desktop option, you can add a custom keyboard shortcut.

It takes a tiny bit of effort but does the job.

In this quick tutorial, I am going to show you how to add a keyboard shortcut to show the desktop in GNOME.

Add a shortcut key to show the desktop in GNOME

I am using Arch Linux with GNOME 43 in this tutorial, but the steps are applicable to any Linux distribution using any latest ver

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