Comments on: Global keybindings in GTK+

By: Luca Bruno

Luca Bruno — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:08:08 +0000

No well, that wasn’t what I was looking for really. It’s only an entry in gnome-control-center, nothing more. I think i’ll go for the egg!

By: Luca Bruno

Luca Bruno — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:13:04 +0000

Thanks for this post! I discovered gnome-keybindings which right what I’m looking for.

By: Stephen Gentle

Stephen Gentle — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:44:33 +0000

Kind of irrelevant, but one thing I don’t get is how Gnome’s keyboard shortcuts completely fail at using the super keys, but both Compiz Fusion and Gnome Do don’t have any trouble at all…

By: Bastien

Bastien — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:14:42 +0000

http://live.gnome.org/ControlCenter/ApplicationDefinedKeybindings
Then there’s some copy-paste code available for actually capturing the key, look for tomboykeybinder.c

By: Quentin

Quentin — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:20:54 +0000

I think it’s with http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdk/stable/GdkDisplay.html#gdk-display-add-client-message-filter

By: Filippo

Filippo — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:04:09 +0000

Probably a bit rough but the only thing that I can think of:
make the application remote controllable with libunique or dbus, provide it with some command line option to do what you want and bind those to metacity global keybindings setting the relevant keys in /apps/metacity/global_key_bindings and /apps/metacity/keybinding_commands.
Any better idea?

By: Carl van Tonder

Carl van Tonder — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:41:00 +0000

There’s no good way to do this, your two bizarre hack-ish solutions are:
1. Use gconf and steal one of the metacity keybindings (like Automatix does)
2. Use Tomboy’s .so file (I forget the name), like gnome-do

1. Means that you potentially steamroller over user preferences unless you’re very careful, and you have a (small) chance of not being able to register a keybinding at all. 2. means that you need to depend on code from Tomboy, so you either have to depend on Tomboy directly (like gnome-do used to) or copy code from them and keep it updated manually (like gnome-do now does).

By: Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen

Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:28:50 +0000

I wrote a library to do exactly this. GtkHotkey: https://launchpad.net/gtkhotkey

By: Anders

Anders — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:12:44 +0000

Hmm. Imagine if we could somehow see the source code of GNOME-do… That would be awesome!

By: Johan Svedberg

Johan Svedberg — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:09:48 +0000

The “correct” way is to register them in gnome-keybindings-properties like detailed in http://live.gnome.org/ControlCenter/ApplicationDefinedKeybindings

Please write a patch for gnome-do while you’re at it.