GNOME Custom Hotkey for Application Launch
Steps for creating a custom hotkey to launch any application in GNOME:
- Open Applications --> System --> Configuration Editor (gconf-editor) as the user as you're logged in in GNOME
- Go to "apps" --> "metacity" --> "keybinding_commands"
- Double-click on e.g. "command_1"
- Type in the name of the application you want to launch, e.g. "gnome-terminal", the GNOME terminal, or "gcalctool", the GNOME calculator..
- Go to "apps" -> "metacity" -> "global_keybindings"
- Double-click on e.g. "run_command_1"
- Type in e.g.
t - Note the < and > for the special function keys
- Done! Close the gconf-editor and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+t and the terminal should come up.
- If you're using KDE, right-click on the application in the K menu, click on "edit", press on the "None" button on the lower-right and press the keyboard combination that you want (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+t), click OK, and save your settings.
- Using Beryl on GNOME makes you lose the settings above, so launch the Beryl-manager-settings --> General Options (top) --> General Options (left) --> Commands tab (right) --> choose a command#, enter a command like gnome-terminal --> Shortcuts tab (right) --> commands --> choose the run_command# and type the shortcut like:
t
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