[SLUG] Keyboard shortcuts in Gnome

[Stephen O'Neill]

For those wanting to know how to create custom keyboard shortcuts in
Gnome, this is the article which originally showed me the way.

http://gnome-hacks.web.com/hacks.html?id=14

It assumes that you have gconf-editor installed, which for me is in /usr/bin

The text from the article says:

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It is quite possible to add your own shortcut keys to Metacity to run
whatever
commands you like. Let's assume we want Control-e to launch gedit for us.

* Run gconf-editor (in rh9, at least, it is also available in the
menu->System
Tools->More System Tools->Configuration Editor).

* Go to "Apps->Metacity->Keybinding Commands"

Here we have a list of twelve slots for commands. We want one of them
(command_3, say) to run gedit:

Double click (or right-click and choose "Edit key" in the popup-menu),
and you
will get to edit the key. In "Key Value", enter "gedit". Press OK.

Note that there is a bit of explanatory text at the bottom of the
gconf-editor
screen.

We have our command, but now we must also tell Metacity what key to press to
run it. Go to "Global keybindings" (in the list to the left). As you
see, there
are a lot of stuff to bind keys to. Scroll down until you find the line
"run_command_3" - it's about in the middle of the list.

* Select the line and double-click or select "Edit key". Change the key
value
to "<Control>e". Press "Ok".

You're done! Try it by pressing ctrl-e and you should get a gedit window.

Gconf saves stuff immediately as you enter it, and also notifies the
application (Metacity, in our case) immediately, so there is no need to
save or
restart anything.
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Steve O
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