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Idea #2084: Allow Custom Keyboard Shortcuts

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #163: Sytem-wide shortcut configuration.
Written by keen101 the 1 Mar 08 at 09:02. Category: System. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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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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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #2084
Written by keen101 the 1 Mar 08 at 09:02.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #2084 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

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keen101 wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 22:10
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.

Lex wrote on the 28 Mar 08 at 01:10
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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