where do I put a command to setup keyboard shortcuts for Gnome 3

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Wed, 4/27/11, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: where do I put a command to setup keyboard shortcuts for Gnome 3
> To: "fedora-test-list" <test at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 7:29 PM
> Dear folks,
> 
> I am running Gnome 3 and want to setup a special keyboard
> mapping to be able to get special keys/shortcuts see http://sob.apotheon.org/?p=814 for special character
> discussion.  
> 
> ñ For students/parents with last names Peña, or Treviño
> as examples, also for accents like José 
> 
> The command 
> 
> setxkbmap -option compose:ralt
> 
> does the job and instead of placing it in
> /etc/rc.d/rc.local or /etc/rc.local or other older
> solution.  If I need to put in ~/.bashrc, ~/.xinitrc
> will it start and allow me to input the special
> characters?  
> 
> I have figured it out for (FreeBSD and Slackware[XFCE
> desktop]) using startx and automatic login using
> tricks.  Have not figured it out for Fedora with
> gnome-shell or Gnome 3 :(  
> 
> Where will it work? (~/.xinitrc), (~/.bashrc),
> (~/.config/autostart),  using regular startup(level 5
> with systemd)?
> 
> Thanks to the other suggestions I got gkrellm to run at
> startup using gkrellm.desktop in ~/.config/autostart/, do I
> need something similar.  I want to have this available
> so my students can compose the special characters and I
> don't have to type the command everytime :(
> 
> This way they can type their correspondance to their
> spanish professors at the community college.  They want
> to use alt+164, but I got advice to use the compose key + ~
> => ñ 
> 
> Thanks in Advance,
> 
> Antonio 
> -- 

I have tried creating a file in 
userdirectory
~/.xinitrc with the command, but it does not work.  

Any suggestions out there?  Works with KDE/XFCE/ other desktops out there? a universal solution not necessarily for Gnome 3?

Thanks,

Antonio