"Make sense" keymap to launch gnome-system-monitor?

[Cory K.]

Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> On Feb 5, 2008 5:43 PM, Cory K. <coryisatm at nc.rr.com
> <mailto:coryisatm at nc.rr.com>> wrote:
>
>     Ubuntu Studio has decided to add a keymap to launch
>     gnome-system-monitor.
>
>     Most windows users see this as a equivalent to Ctrl+Alt+Del. That
>     is of
>     course already mapped and launches the logout dialog. So we decided to
>     use the keys KDE uses to launch their monitor. Ctrl+Esc. This
>     works out
>     great in metacity but not so well in Compiz as both Ctrl and Esc are
>     "special" keys and cannot be used this way.
>
>     From #compiz-fusion-dev: "maniac103: Escape == Cancel and Return ==
>     Commit (regardless of the modifiers) and cannot be used together"
>
>     So I'm asking what would possibly be a "make sense" keymap to use
>     across
>     both Metacity and Compiz to use for gnome-system-monitor?
>
>     -Cory \m/
>     <https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss>
>
>
>
> Can super+escape work?  I thought Compiz only freaked out if the key
> combo was already in use, but using the modifiers otherwise didn't matter.
>
> -- 
> Mackenzie Morgan

<Super>Esc looks to be another of case of 2 modifiers that wont work
together.

-Cory