[nmglug] gnome-terminal short cut with MetaCity

[Jason Davis]

On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 10:21 -0600, Sam Noble wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 16:23 -0600, Jason Davis wrote:
> > Hello,
> >  Now that j.s. showed me brightside I have switched to MetaCity as my
> > window manager. However , the only way i see to start a gnome-term
> > via a keyboard shortcut is to have the run dialog come up. But this is
> > annoying as I typed dmesg into the run dialog once , now i have to hit
> > up twice on the run dialog to get to the gnome-term command because it
> > saved the dmesg command. Anyone know of a better way to bind gnome-term
> > to a keyboard shortcut?
> 
> 
> gconftool-2 -t string -s /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/run_command_terminal "<Alt>F3"
> (or whatever key you like)
> 
> Or in the pretty gui gconf-editor you navigate to Apps -> metacity ->
> global_keybindings and set the string value there.
> 
> In slightly older gnome there is no run_command_terminal so you have to
> go to keybinding commands and choose one of the free slots and set it to
> run gnome-terminal then set your keybinding for that in
> global_keybindings.
> 
> gconftool-2 -t string -s /apps/metacity/keybinding_commands/command_3 "x-terminal-emulator"
> 
> and:
> 
> gconftool-2 -t string -s /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/command_3 "<Alt>F3"


Thanks a lot Sam :)
jd