Hey, that rocks! Thanks for posting! Mike
bascule wrote: > further to posts under the recent thread concerning cut and paste i have been > doing some reading and i have discovered that the 'khotkeys' prog mentioned > by randy (iirc), is installed as part of kde (in kdebase i think), it is used > if one uses 'kmenuedit' to edit the menus as this has options to assign keys > to launch the applications, doing this then creates a > ~/.kde/share/config/khotkeysrc file, however this route means creating a menu > item, fortunately this url: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue67/evans.html > gives a nice example of how to manually edit this file to create a shortcut > for a command without having to create a menu item, i have used this route to > create shortcuts for altering the volume using the keyboard, > i created two scripts called 'volumeup' and volumedown' as follows, > volumeup: > #!/bin/bash > aumix -v +5 -S > > volumedown: > #!/bin/bash > aumix -v -5 -S > > made them execuatble of course and put them in my ~/scripts directory > i then created ~/.kde/share/config/khotkeysrc file > as follows: > [Main] > Num_Sections=2 > Version=1 > > [Section1] > MenuEntry=false > Name=volumeup > Run=~/scripts/volumeup > Shortcut=Shift+Insert > > [Section2] > MenuEntry=false > Name=volumeudown > Run=~/scripts/volumedown > Shortcut=Shift+Delete > > then i used the info from the above url and ran: > 'dcop khotkeys khotkeys reread_configuration' at a prompt to get khotkeys to > reread its config file > > voila! > the key combos i used aren't my preferred, using kmenuedit to see what the ui > would accept i noticed that the numpad keys seem to be ignored so i'm hoping > that what i've chosen - shift-insert and shift-delete don't conflict with > anything, but they are easily changed! > > i hope this might be of help to someone > i forget who pointed me to the aumix command line options but thankyou! > > bascule
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