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<sect1 id="config-keybindings">
  <title>Keybindings</title>
  <para>
    Keybindings allow you to use keystroke combinations on the
    keyboard to help make your navigation in your desktop environment
    faster and easier.  Using keybindings, you can sometimes get your
    computer usage to be so fast and efficient, that your friends are
    impressed while watching you work.
  </para>
  <para>
    The most common and well known keybindings are the Save and Quit
    keybindings: Ctrl + S and Ctrl + Q in <application>Microsoft
    Windows</application> respectively.
  </para>
  <para>
    <application>Gnome</application> allows you to configure what
    keybindings are used in numerous places in your desktop.
  </para>
  <sect2 id="config-keybindings-ui">
    <title>The Keybindings Interface</title>
    <para>
      The keybindings interface is quite simple.  It has one option to
      set the keybinding scheme to use in applications.  You have two
      options: Default and emacs.
    </para>
    <para>
      Default uses Control S and other bindings which are firmilar to
      most users from the <application>Microsoft Windows</application>
      operating system.
    </para>
    <para>
      emacs is a popular text editor for Linux and Unix based
      systems.  emacs uses different keybindings than that of
      default.  For example, save is Control X S.
    </para>
  </sect2>
</sect1>