Keybindings in gnome 2.6 [Solved]

d99ma · Last edited by d99ma on Thu May 20, 2004 10:00 pm; edited 2 times in total

Hi

I need some custom keybindings for my laptop keyboard which I earlier used xmodmap for. But in gnome 2.6 this doesn't seem to work, and the keyboard configuration menu doesn't have any options that help.

How does one make custom keybindings in gnome 2.6?

/Martin

gakk · Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 12:16 pm Post subject: Re: Keybindings in gnome 2.6

If you use gconf-editor (should be in the menu Applications -> System Tools -> Configuration Editor):

Click Apps -> Metacity -> Keybinding_commands
Then edit command_n (where n is in the range 1-12)
For value: enter the path to the program you want to start (with switches if you like)
Then choose Global_keybindings, and edit run_command_n
For the key combination, just follow the syntax in the other bindings.

And there you have it

I myself usually have <control><shift>F7 and <control><shift>F8 bound to xmms -r and -f

Of course you could also choose another WM...

Edit: hmm.. it's possible I misread your post

d99ma · Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 1:48 pm Post subject:

You probably did, or perhaps my question was unclear.

I'm looking for the possibility to change e.g. shift - A, so that when i type <shift> A i get a small c for example.

d99ma · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 9:11 pm Post subject:

A friendly bump for my problem.

It must be possible to change keybindings in gnome!

ecatmur · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 9:53 pm Post subject:

xmodmap is the right tool to use. How are you invoking it?
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d99ma · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 10:00 pm Post subject:

Ha ha, that solved it!

I have a .Xmodmap in my ~ directory which was "automatically" used in gnome 2.4 but in 2.6 that doesn't seem to be the case, but after running xmodmap .Xmodmap everything works.

Thanks
/Martin