Binding arbitary commands to keyboard shortcuts

Metacity does actually support binding arbitary commands to shortcuts, however there is no clean way of doing it.

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

• Open up gconf-editor
• Under the 'apps' tree, locate metacity
• In the 'global_keybindings' branch, find the 'run_command_1' key
• Click in the 'value' column in the appropriate row, and enter the key you'd like to bind a command to. Eg, F12.
• In the 'keybindings_command' branch, find the 'command_1' key
• Click in the 'value' column in the appropriate row, and enter the command you'd like to run, eg 'xterm'