Ubuntu: What is the "Grave" button? (4 Solutions!)
Channel: Roel Van de Paar
Date: 2019-06-30

Ubuntu: What is the "Grave" button?


The Question: The quick help of Unity (long press on the Super button) shows that Switch
windows of current application can be triggered by Alt+Grave keyboard shortcut.
What is Grave?
Here it is:
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Solutions Sample (Please watch the whole video to see all solutions, in order of how many people found them helpful):

== This solution helped 52 people ==
This is usually the button immediately above the TAB on most keyboards.
For my keyboard - grave is actually correctly known as the ` key - grave is
also known as the back-tick.
In my travels I have seen the Ubuntu "key above the tab" to actually be the ?
or o. I'm sure there are many other similar characters on peoples keyboards.
Depending on your locality if you press and hold the SUPER to display the
overlay, you should see the equivalent Grave key for your locality
for example:
[enter image description here]
(thanks Javier Rivera)
For my keyboard combination - ALT+` - gives you this switching capability
(cycle through the windows group):
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To use this key combination - let go of the grave without letting go of Alt and
then repress grave to cycle through the windows group.

== This solution helped 19 people ==
Additional information:
List of most common Accents and Diacritical marks
 acute '
 breve ?
 caron ?
 cedilla ,
 circumflex ^
 dieresis ?
 grave `
 macron ?
 ogonek ?
 tilde ~
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EDIT:
tilde | 'tild? | noun
an accent ~ placed over Spanish n when pronounced ny (as in senor) or
Portuguese a or o when nasalized (as in Sao Paulo), or over a vowel in phonetic
transcription, indicating nasalization.
 * the same symbol as a part of a URL.
 * a similar symbol used in mathematics to indicate similarity, and in logic
 to indicate negation.
ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from Spanish, based on Latin titulus.
V.S
macron | 'ma?kran; **'mak-; 'makr?n | noun
a written or printed mark ? used to indicate a long vowel in some languages and
phonetic transcription systems, or a stressed vowel in verse.
ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from Greek makron, neuter of makros 'long.'
Source: [source]
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Good question yossile (+1)up.
First of all, both differentiate in visual appearance ? vs. ~. Secondly, they
are not exactly the same, depending on the language they where adopted by as
shown in the dictionary example above, though both share a lot of similarities
in executed usage, due to there common origin.
To my knowledge, the dictionary quote above is "not accurate/adequate", since
one can find ~ in archaic Greek philology (Heraclitus - Logos, Empedocles,
Parmenides etc..) as well. Although the Greeks adopted it from the http://
www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://www.phoenician.org/
alphabet_phoenician.GIF&imgrefurl=http://www.phoenician.org/
alphabet.htm&h=321&w=390&sz=15&tbnid=JCFkzSJ4xlOlxM:&tbnh=91&tbnw=111&prev=/
search?q=phoenician%2balphabet&tbm=isch&tbo=u&zoom=1&q=phoenician%20alphabet&docid=-
Oi-
XUx3hz6M_M&hl=de&sa=X&ei=7YZsT_3yGeim4gTl2qm_Ag&sqi=2&ved=0CEAQ9QEwAQ&dur=381,
which our language system today mainly is build on (Alphabet/Letters).

== This solution helped 11 people ==
"Grave" button is `, just next to 1.
[Grave button]

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