Re: Open Terminal here (was Re: PATCH: Bug 82463)

[David Lazaro <david lazaro eresmas net>]

On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 13:48, Anne et Bertrand wrote:
> I agree that there is no use for an "open terminal item" in the desktop
> context menu, the panel let you open a terminal more quickly !. But
> there should be on keystroke available all other gnome's apps to open
> it (like CTRL-T, if DEL is choosen for "move to trash" ?). With 
> Sawfish/Enlightenment, I
> did this keystroke. I can't with Metacity.

Slightly OOT and it is only documented in the README for now but the
fact is you can. Go to the GConf editor and define new commands for any
of the /apps/metacity/keybinding_commands/command_* keys. Then change
the key binding in /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/run_command_* key.

A practical example (from the command line):

$ gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/keybinding_commands/command_1
--type=string "gnome-terminal --geometry=80x40"
$ gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/run_command_1
--type=string "<Control><Alt>T"

Then push Ctrl-Alt-T and you will have a new terminal opened on the
screen with the geometry that you have choosed.

Regards,

David.