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Idea
#2084: Allow Custom Keyboard Shortcuts
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Written by keen101 the 1 Mar 08 at 09:02.
Category: System.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
Sometimes it would be handy to put in a certain program or command to be run when a certain key or list of key's has been pressed. For example: If I needed to run Gimp, Photoshop, OpenOffice, or various terminal commands like: eject -t, eject cdrom1, eject -t cdrom1, etc.. how would it be accomplished?
I do not know of any way. (I have heard rumours about modifying some file, but it seems very complicated, and I have not been able to successfully get it done.)
I propose that in >System >Preferences >Keyboard Shortcuts
in the GUI interface an option to put in custom terminal commands to be run when certain key combinations have been pressed.
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keen101 wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 22:10
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I do not think this idea is a duplicate of idea #163.
I think my idea is different than idea #163.
I find it unfair that this idea has been marked as a duplicate, and there is no option to rubut this decision, or at the very least my idea has not been merged with idea #163.
[sidenote] Also, there is currently no way of contacting the maintainers of brainstorm.
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Lex wrote on the 28 Mar 08 at 01:10
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I hope following will help with defining of any shortcut.
1) Install packages
xbindkeys
xbindkeys-config
2) create empty config file in home directory
touch .xbindkeysrc
3) define shortcuts in GUI
xbindkeys-config
4) run demon (put in session)
xbindkeys
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