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Binding arbitary commands to keyboard shortcuts

Metacity does actually support binding arbitary commands to shortcuts, however there is no clean configuration interface for that.

WARNING This method involves using gconf-editor(1)?. Changing the wrong thing here might break something. Etc.

  • Run gconf-editor(1)?
  • Open the /apps/metacity/global_keybindings branch
  • Click the appropriate row in the value column for the run_command_1 key and enter the key you'd like to bind a command to, eg. F12.
  • Open the /apps/metacity/keybindings_command branch
  • Click the appropriate row in the value column for the command_1 key and enter the command you'd like to run, eg. xterm