Re: metacity keyboard shortcut question

[Daniel Poersch <danielpoe gmx de>]

Larry W. Virden <lvirden <at> cas.org> writes:

> 
> As I have mentioned in other messages, I'm coordinating the
> move of 500 or so users of  OpenWindows to Sun GNOME.
> A user asked today how to define keyboard keys that would
> move directly to a specific application and give it focus.
> 
> For instance, he might want to assign the meta-n keyboard
> shortcut to mean "Find the Netscape process and put keyboard
> focus in that application".

There is a tool called wmctrl (http://sweb.cz/tripie/utils/wmctrl/) which 
should you allow to do so:
$> wmctrl -a "Netscape"

The tool matches against window titles not window classes!

To make a metacity shortcut you have to use gconf-editor, search under
Apps/metacity (Don't have Gnome here can't look up).

Good Luck,

Daniel