Keyboard shortcuts

[marc]

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?