how do you make the keyboard shortcuts work? (FC4)

[Tim]

Ttim:

>> Try as I might, I can't get any of the keyboard shortcuts to work that I
>> program into the "keyboard shortcuts" preferences Gnome GUI tool. 
>>
>>  For example, I've tried the following, ineffectually:
>> 
>> Launch help browser <Shift><Control>w  (original setting, but does nothing)
>> E-mail 0xec (does nothing)
>> Take screenshot <Shift>Print (this works)
>> Run a terminal 0xeb (does nothing)

Richard E Miles:

> I tried some of the commands you mentioned with keyboard shortcuts and
> they work for me. Of course these only work for the keyboard
> activities that are available in the menu.

By menu, do you mean the options in that configuration program?  Such as
some of the ones I listed.

Desktop:  log out, sleep, search, e-mail, launch web browser, run a
terminal, all do nothing.  None of the sound category items do anything.

I notice that some of these entries don't seem to have a corresponding
entry in the gconf-editor mentioned below.

> You click on the entry, then enter the key combination you want, and
> it works. This is for the keyboard shortcuts from the Desktop
> preferences keyboard selection.

Not for me...  :-(  Only a few of them work.

> If you want to use your own activity for example a keyboard
> shortcut for the eject command you have to select from the
> applications system tools configuration editor gui application. Select
> apps metacity global_keybindings to enter the shortcut then from the
> keyboard-commands selection enter the actual command to launch (ie
> eject).

Do you mean "keybinding_commands" rather than keyboard-commands?  That
was the other thing I tried.  For instance:

gconf-editor 2.10.0:
...
gthumb
metacity
   general
   global_keybindings
     run_command_2      F7
   keybinding_commands
     command_2          xmms     
   window_keybindings
   workspace_names
mini-commander
...

That appears to work.  Though still doesn't help me with one or two
useful buttons on this keyboard (e.g. un/mute the sound, volume
up/down).

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