[Glade-users] system wide hotkeys (keyboard shortcut)

[tvb at gnome.org (Tristan Van Berkom)]

Uri wrote:
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> thanks for the help. but i was hoping for something more specific. i got to the
> same point where i was "guessing" that it was either x11, or gnome itself
> (window manager or nautilus or whatever), etc. the thing is that so far i
> couln't find anything.
> from what i gather there aren't any API on either GTK, or gnome that will
> provide this, right?

     GTK+ doesnt provide such an api, you really need support from the underlying
operating system for this kind of control (i.e. a simple desktop application
doesnt decide what keyboard events are sent to it and which are filtered out).

Cheers,
              -Tristan