Comments on: Assign Custom Shortcut Keys on Ubuntu Linux

By: fry

fry — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:55:02 +0000

I had some difficulty assigning window_keybindings to numpad keys like +. The name for this key is apparently KP_Add. The . on the keypad is KP_decimal. Google those 2 to find more.

Oh, great, I assigned a shortcut to shift-d somewhere and can’t find it, so now I can’t type a capital d.

By: NoLongerValid

NoLongerValid — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:15:05 +0000

This was a useful article for me last year (Thanks alot, I needed it), but the development team has taken notice with Ubuntu 9.04. The steps given are no longer valid, and they added the ability to easily create custom commands using the Keyboard configurator that was nearly worthless beforehand.

By: Ajesh

Ajesh — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 05:34:47 +0000

This article was really helpful. But I think one needs to write the Control key at instead of . At least for me, on Ubuntu 8.10, the latter didn’t work.

By: ugur

ugur — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:12:32 +0000

Thanks for replies.

I have another question:

Is it possible to appoint key combinations other than alt and control, like a+s or KP_8+KP_9

By: Timmyson

Timmyson — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:10:16 +0000

Ugur:
You can access the keypad numbers with something like “KP_5″

Question for the masses:
I can get this to work with any of the keypad except number 9. When I set a command to 9, it gets recorded as such in the Configuration Editor, however the previous value remains active, and 9 doesn’t work. Eg. If I change “KP_5″ to “KP_9″ (in conjuction with and then pressing 5 works, and 9 does not. Is this how it works for other people?

And I�can’t get any punctuation keys, or symbols around the numpad to work. Does anyone know of a comprehensive list of the names of the keys? Google has been failing me.

By: Sy

Sy — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:01:16 +0000

Thank you for this it was just what I was looking for. I have mentioned this thread here (http://www.aspireoneuser.com/f.....mp;t=9002), I hope that is ok.

Thanks again

By: Ugur

Ugur — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:50:12 +0000

I figure out that one of the problem is numpad cannot be used with this. Is there a way that I can appoint a function to numpad ‘8′?

By: Ugur

Ugur — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:02:53 +0000

Firstly thanks for the article..

I have the same problem with Miikka and Ubuntu 8.04

Is there a solution.

By: memordial

memordial — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:53:02 +0000

@ John David : what about pause n break keys?? did you find it

By: Miikka

Miikka — Sun, 11 May 2008 20:24:11 +0000

It says:
“There was an error running the command “/home/myname/file.py”:
Starting the child process “/home/myname/file.py” failed (Permission denied).”
(Translated it from Finnish)
It says it for every file in my home directory. Even for .txt files! If i write “firefox” to the command_1 it opens it easily.
What is wrong? And btw I have Ubuntu 8.04.