{"id":9,"date":"2014-01-27T20:28:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T19:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crydust.be\/blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2026-08-13T16:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:03:50","slug":"switching-to-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.crydust.be\/blog\/2014\/01\/27\/switching-to-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Switching to Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently switched from windows and linux to mac. Pretty much everything is different. Here are the shortcuts I can&#8217;t live without:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<th>On Windows, I used to&#8230;<\/th>\n<th>On my Mac&#8230;<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Home<\/td>\n<td>Cmd+Left<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>End<\/td>\n<td>Cmd+Right<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Delete<\/td>\n<td>fn+Backspace<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ctrl+Left<\/td>\n<td>Alt+Left<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ctrl+Right<\/td>\n<td>Alt+Right<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cut Ctrl+X<\/td>\n<td>Cmd+X<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Copy Ctrl+C<\/td>\n<td>Cmd+C<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Paste Ctrl+V<\/td>\n<td>Cmd+V<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ctrl+X Ctrl+V to move a file in explorer<\/td>\n<td>Cmd+C Cmd+Alt+V to copy and move a file in the finder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td rowspan=\"7\" style=\"vertical-align: top;\">PrintScreen<\/td>\n<td>Cmd+Shift+3: print full screen to file on desktop<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cmd+Shift+4: print selected region to file on desktop<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cmd+Shift+4 Space Click: print selected window, including shadow, to file on desktop<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cmd+Ctrl+Shift+3: print full screen to clipboard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cmd+Ctrl+Shift+4: print selected region to clipboard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cmd+Ctrl+Shift+4 Space Click: print selected window, including shadow, to clipboard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cmd+Space grab Cmd+Shift+W Click Click Cmd+S: print selected window, without shadow, to file<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>pipe |<\/td>\n<td>Alt+Shift+L<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>tilde ~<\/td>\n<td>Alt+N Space<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td rowspan=\"2\" style=\"vertical-align: top;\">Ctrl+Alt+Del Force quit unresponsive application<\/td>\n<td>Cmd+Alt+Esc Click<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cmd+Alt+Shift+Esc (hold for three seconds)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ctrl+Shift+Esc Task Manager<\/td>\n<td>Cmd+Space Activity Monitor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>F2 rename file<\/td>\n<td>Enter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Enter open file<\/td>\n<td>Cmd+Down<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Windows+Left<\/td>\n<td>install <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fikovnik\/ShiftIt\">ShifIt<\/a> and then Cmd+Alt+Ctrl+Left<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Windows+Right<\/td>\n<td>install ShifIt and then Cmd+Alt+Ctrl+Right<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Del to delete a file<\/td>\n<td>Cmd+Backspace<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Windows+D to show desktop<\/td>\n<td>fn+F11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Insert to select a file in midnight commander<\/td>\n<td>Ctrl+T<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/support\/macbasics\/pctomac\/\">Apple Support: Switching PC Habits<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently switched from windows and linux to mac. Pretty much everything is different. Here are the shortcuts I can&#8217;t live without: On Windows, I used to&#8230; On my Mac&#8230; Home Cmd+Left End Cmd+Right Delete fn+Backspace Ctrl+Left Alt+Left Ctrl+Right Alt+Right &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crydust.be\/blog\/2014\/01\/27\/switching-to-mac\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crydust.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crydust.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crydust.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crydust.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crydust.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.crydust.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"http:\/\/www.crydust.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crydust.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crydust.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crydust.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}