Create shortcut to minimize all windows

[Dave]

I’m a big fan of keyboard shortcuts, and one that I used with Windows was Win-D (Win is the Windows key, which my old laptop has).

Is there a way to create the same shortcut in Zorin Lite to show the desktop (i.e. minimize all windows)? The keyboard settings window has a section for shortcuts, but I have to type the command that I want the shortcut to execute, which I don’t know.

Or is there a way to add a ‘button’ on the bottom right corner of the taskbar to accomplish minimizing all windows?

Any suggestions?

[Aravisian]

Yes, please see this thread:

How to Make These Custom Keyboard Shortcuts in Zorin Education Lite?

I cannot recall a command on XFCE for window snapping - I use the Cinnamon desktop Environment installed on Zorin and it does that automatically. Just toss the window over there and it snaps into place. It also does it for upper and lower. I will try searching this. For Show Desktop with super+D sudo nano ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml tab down to where it says property name=“custom” type+“empty” and scroll down slowly and look for the line that say…

[337harvey]

ctl + alt + d…see here:

Tips and bolts

[Dave]

For some reason, Ctrl+Alt+D does not work for me to show the desktop.

But based on the links provided, I used Window Manager settings to set “Show Desktop” to be Super+D. And then I went to Keyboard settings to change “xfce4-popup-zorinmenulite” to something other than “Super”.

And it works beautifully! No terminal coding required! Thank you!

And thanks for the useful shortcuts, @337harvey.