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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