# Keybindings

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.

The most common and well known keybindings are the Save and Quit keybindings: Ctrl + S and Ctrl + Q in Microsoft Windows respectively.

Mate allows you to configure what keybindings are used in numerous places in your desktop.

## The Keybindings Interface

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.

Default uses Control S and other bindings which are firmilar to most users from the Microsoft Windows operating system.

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.