Gnome Shortucts

Requirements:

Assuming you are running on standard Fedora Installation. Valid for Fedora 8 and possibly other releases.
Note: This does not work with desktop effects turned on. Please read the disclaimer.
 

Doing the work:

1. Open the terminal.
2. Install gconf-editor if you do not have it installed already. Enter the root password when prompted to.
   

   su -c 'yum install gconf-editor'

3. Once installation is complete, press alt+f2 and when the run box appears, enter 'gconf-editor' (without quotes)
4. In gconf-editor navigate to
   

   apps->metacity->keybinding_commands.

5. On the right hand window, double click command_1 and enter a value. In this example, we would add a shortcut for Firefox and they key will be Ctrl+Alt+1.
   In the value box add:
   

   firefox

   
   
6. Now that we have configured command_1 to launch Firefox, lets add the shortcut key to it. For this navigate to
   

   apps->metacity->global_keybindings

7. Once in global_keybindings, look for run_command_1, double click it and enter a value. In this case the value will be
   

   <Control><Alt>1

   
6. Once you are done just close gconf-editor window.

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