How to CTRL + ALT + DEL on a Mac. 15 February, 2011 by Tom Harrison in mac os x. No doubt most people who’ve switched to Mac computers from the PC world are familiar with the CTRL + ALT + DEL command. It’s used to bring up the task manager, and when pressed twice will reboot the computer. The End key is a key commonly found on desktop and laptop keyboards. The key has the opposite effect of the Home key. In some limited-size keyboards where the End key is missing the same functionality can be reached via the key combination of Fn + →.

When working in the editor nano (within Terminal) your ctrl key combinations are listed at the bottom of said terminal window. Creating linux live usb for mac. NOTE: The following key combinations consist of only letters. The key combinations you are searching for are: ctrl + o = Save (Will provide a prompt to chose name to save as) ctrl + x = Exit Other popular combinations while on the standard nano editor are: ctrl + g = Get Help ctrl + r = Read file (Insert file from specific location) ctrl + k = Cut Text (Will cut the entire line of text that your cursor is on) ctrl + w = Where Is (Search current nano page) ctrl + c = Current Position (Locates the current position your cursor is on and reports the line column and character).