On Sunday 16 November 2003 17:59, you wrote:
> I've got fedora up and running ok, the problems are with learning how to
> accomplish things with new tools.
>
> Problem: I want use Alt+x to open a command prompt. I can do this in
> RH-8.0 because I use sawfish & gnome-2.0.
>
> Gnome 2.4 uses metacity as the window manager. Changing to sawfish left
> out way more functionality with gnome-2.4 than it did with gnome-2.0.
> Not to mention it's near impossible to make this swap without using `rpm
> -e --nodeps metacity`. I *really* don't like --nodeps.
>
> Question: Is it possible to use Alt+x to open a terminal in either
> metacity, gnome2.4 or kde-3.1.4? If so, how?
>
> Question: Is it possible to create custom shortcuts, like I can do with
> sawfish, in kde? I'd be willing to change window managers to accomplish
> this.
>
Unfortunately, the only Gnome systems I have experience with sawfish, so I 
can't speak for Metacity.   And though sawfish on Gnome 2.2 gives you the 
option of binding a particular command-launch to a key, I don't see this in 
2.4 on my Red Hat 9 system.  (Perhaps the complaints from the Gnome people 
about RH "crippling" Gnome to match KDE are true.)
I do know that KDE has a way to set custom key bindings, which is in a 
different place in KDE 2 and KDE 3.
In KDE2, you go to the menu and select:
Configuration->KDE->LookNFeel->Key Bindings
In KDE3, you do:
Preferences->LookNFeel->Shortcuts2

This all may be a moot point, because the closest KDE appears to have to a 
"launch application" shortcut is one that brings up a little popup window 
into which you must then typ the name of the command.  This is normally bound 
to Alt-F2.

There is one other option, and that's to actually write a C or C++ program to 
do the terminal popup.   There's a library routine called XGrabKey which 
allows you to intercept a particular keystroke and a particular modifier.  
You can write a little daemon-type program to intercept key events, using the 
XNextEvent call.   If you see an XK_X character event with the XK_Alt_L or 
XK_Alt_R modifier set, you can launch gnome-terminal using a standard 
fork-and-exec routine.  When your key-binding program exits, it should 
release bindings with the XUngrabKey call.  You can find documentation on 
these routines by Googling the terms "Linux [name-of-call] manual".  This 
program can be compiled and linked with gcc, but you must include the Xlib.h 
and keysym.h header files at /usr/X11R6/include and the X11 library at 
/usr/X11R6/lib.

Sorry the answer had to be a complicated one. :-)

Vaughn Treude
Nakota Software, Inc.
>
> It's also worth mentioning that fedora DOESN'T ship with Galeon, AND you
> can't get it with rpm. I suppose that's more galeon's fault than
> fedora's though. The galeon tarball might compile but I like package
> managers.
>
> Thx,
> Bart
>
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