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

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The attached document "Gnome3Help" has some good information about Gnome 3.  "Compose Key" (pg.11) will do for ñ or accentuation like the a in está.

For my purposes I assigned The"Compose Key" to the "Pose/Brake" key.



----- "Antonio Olivares" <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- 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 
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