Think shell

This ain’t really rocket science procedure, but I find it to be very useful in my daily work. I’ve familiarized myself with standard gnome hot keys and keyboard shortcuts, but there is always something missing.

I found myself extensively using gnome-terminal but they ain’t no shortcuts for it, so the next best thing is to put a launcher on panel or desktop, or to run it via ALT-F2 then typing gnome-terminal. However its very annoying to leave my hands from the keyboard while in a so here is a simple step by step howto create gnome custom global keyboard shortcuts.

Start your gconf editor by opening your terminal and typing:

gconf-editor

After that navigate to: apps/metacity/keybinding_commands/ and insert gnome-terminal under command_1 as shown in the picture.

Now when we defined the command, all we need to do is to setup a shortcut, in gconf-editor navigate to: apps/metacity/global_keybindings

Find the key run_command_1 and place your shortcut as shown in the picture

After inserting <ALT>F3 under run_command_1 pressing that key combination will open gnome-terminal.

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