Crossposting...

Randy Yates <yates@ieee.org> writes:

> The gnome-keybinding-properties allows one to map their keyboard
> shortcut keys (e.g., "Home") to various "system events" such as
> "Launch web browser." This is good and is working very well on
> my FC6 distro.
>
> However, this is only part of a composite mapping from a shortcut key to
> an actual application. The other part is the mapping from "system events"
> to tha actual application. For example, "Launch web browser" is mapped to
> "firefox" in my system.
>
> How does one examine and configure this second mapping mechanism? I'd like
> to define a shortcut key to start my favorite editor, xemacs.
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Randy Yates wrote:
> Crossposting...
>
> Randy Yates <yates@ieee.org> writes:
>
>> The gnome-keybinding-properties allows one to map their keyboard
>> shortcut keys (e.g., "Home") to various "system events" such as
>> "Launch web browser." This is good and is working very well on
>> my FC6 distro.
>>
>> However, this is only part of a composite mapping from a shortcut key to
>> an actual application. The other part is the mapping from "system events"
>> to tha actual application. For example, "Launch web browser" is mapped to
>> "firefox" in my system.
>>
>> How does one examine and configure this second mapping mechanism? I'd like
>> to define a shortcut key to start my favorite editor, xemacs.

Think you need to edit the gnome2 registries, using the gconf-editor, if that
don't help, then it's hard coded.

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usabi.../msg00021.html

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