Re: Copy keybindings from one machine to another?

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 11:26 +0200, Martin Man wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Larry Hunter wrote On 2006-07-19 02:05,:
> > Folks,
> > 
> > I've put some effort into getting my personal favorite keybindings set
> > up in Gnome (2.14).  Is there some convenient way of copying those
> > keybindings to another machine?  It would be so much easier to just copy
> > something than have to go through gnome-keybinding-properties to set
> > each by hand....
> 
> Your fried might be gconftool-2, it can certainly get the value of 
> certain property and set a value from commandline. This way you can 
> automate the setup of your shortcuts using the shell script that does 
> something like:
> 
> $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/run_command_1 \
>      --type string F12
> 
> $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/keybinding_commands/command_1 \
>      --type string thunderbird
> 
> You can also 'gconftool-2 --dump /apps/metacity' to dump your settings 
> into xml, but I didn't find a way how to reimport such xml file back. 
> Maybe I'm missing something obvious here, or it simply is not 
> implemented at all.
> 
> In any case, I'm missing this functionality as well :-(

The option you want is --load

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Shaun