Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 114360
Keyboard shortcuts missing "add" functionality
Last modified: 2013-04-02 00:19:03 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.9 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030314 Description of problem: The Preferences/Keyboard Shortcuts tool gnome-keybinding-properties which is intended amongst other things for binding keyboard special keys to events in the window manager seems to be completely missing the "add" functionality described in the help system. The process of adding special keys is described in the help system: Custom Shortcuts To add a hot key, perform the following steps: 1. Click Add. A Custom Binding dialog is displayed. Unfortunately there is nothing labeled "add" to click in the gnome-keybinding-properties tool when I open it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): control-center-2.2.0.1-9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Select Preferences/Keyboard Shortcuts or run /usr/bin/gnome-keybinding-properties 2.Note the complete lack of anything labeled "add" Actual Results: No "add" functionality though the help says there is, and the tool has very little use without it. Expected Results: Reality conforming to claims made in the help file. Additional info:
This was a patch that sun added, and never made it upstream. It's fixed in later versions of GNOME.
not sure how to do this properly, but cross-referencing: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88805
from http://oneguycoding.com/ ------- One of the things that's been bugging me about Gnome 2.2, or more specifically bluecurve in RedHat 9.0 is the inability to specify global keyboard shortcuts (aka hotkeys) for specific commands. For example, to open a gnome terminal session (or xterm, etc) I used to always set a shortcut keystroke of Ctrl-Alt-C (for console). Today, I finally figured out how to do this while browsing around in gconf- editor, which is somewhat similar in functionality to the Windows Registry Editor, except the changes are stored in xml files under ~/.gconf. Okay, here's a step by step method for setting keybindings in metacity in a gnome 2.2 environment, Run gconf-editor Open apps/metacity/global_keybindings Edit one of run_command_1 through run_command_12 and specify a keybinding to use to run that command (eg. "<Ctrl><Alt>c") Open apps/metacity/keybinding_commands Specify a command that you want to run after hitting the keybinding specified above (eg. gnome-terminal --geometry 90x40+50+50) Repeat as necessary
Duplicate of bug #88805.