Keyboard shortcuts - key values to keys

[Mario Vukelic]

On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 12:37 -0400, Alex Janssen wrote:
> Does anyone know where I can get a list of key to key values?  Maybe a 
> key map.  In the keyboard shortcuts dialog there are default values for 
> some items in hexadecimal.  I'd like to know by what keys those values 
> are produced. 

I would think that depends on the hardware, and that therefore there can
be no general map. I simply select one of the shortcut entries in the
keyboard shortcut dialog and press the keys one after the other. The
generated codes are then displayed in the list.

> Also, if I assign shortcut keys through gconf-editor, is 
> there somewhere I can look to make sure I don't try to assign a shortcut 
> that's already used?

Why not assign them in the keyboard shortcut dialog (trough selecting
and pressing as above)? It will warn you when assigning a shortccut that
is already used.