[Glade-users] system wide hotkeys (keyboard shortcut)
Tristan Van Berkom
tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com
Sun Jul 9 11:47:47 EDT 2006
Uri wrote:
>after breaking my head and brosing the GTK api help and GNOME help and X11
>help... i decided to ask here.
>is there any way to create system-wide hotkeys (or keyboard shortcuts)?
>
>for example, if the user wants to start or stop the application he only needs
>to press CTRL-ALT-F11 (just an example) and then the program will stop/start
>
>
There are a few layers I think where one can register for keyboard
events...
- /sbin/init (/etc/inittab) owner of all terminals... responsable for
calling
a shutdown script when cntl-alt-del is hit
- X server: I dont know how... but there is certainly a mechanism here to
recieve all keyboard events from the running server (assuming it's
console
is currently active)
- The window manager usually has mechanisms to map shortcuts to common
window manager stuff (i.e. here you might make alt-F4 kill your
focused application).
- The X client application... usually an X client's place is to only
recieve keyboard
events that are sent to its X windows.
Cheers,
-Tristan
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