Keyboard shortcuts
marc
gmane at auxbuss.com
Mon Aug 21 14:47:35 UTC 2006
marc said...
>
> I'm stumped about how to create keyboard shortcuts for launching
> applications.
>
> Put simply, I can't find a way to do it.
>
> A bit of googling brought me this:
>
> http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=42404
>
> (Basically hacking with gconfig editor, a Windows' Registry editor
> like tool.)
>
> Apparently this should work.
>
> Unfortunately, the Win-key doesn't appear to be supported.
>
> So, my questions:
>
> - Is this the true state of affairs with keyboard shortcuts in Gnome?
> - If not, what should one use?
> - If so, how does one apply keyboard shortcuts for all accounts?
> - If so, how do you reset all settings to their default?
> - How can these settings be backed up and restored?
> - What is the mechanism to use,say, <Win>+f ?
A follow up to my own post.
Here's a bug report related to the Win-key problem:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165343
High priority but outstanding for over a year and a half.
But what's proposed is way to technical for regular desktop users.
In addition, I found a kludge to work around Gnome's/Metacity's
seemingly gaping usability issue of being unable to assign keyboard
shortcuts by using xbindkeys and xbindkeys-config.
Again, this is fine for me, but useless for encouraging Windows' users
on to Ubuntu.
--
Best,
Marc
If god made us the way we are, how come he built us out of spare chimp
parts?
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