GNOME 2.0 Desktop for the Solaris Operating Environment User Guide

Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts

A keyboard shortcut is a key or combination of keys that provides an alternative to standard ways of performing an action.

Use the Keyboard Shortcuts preference tool to display the default keyboard shortcuts. You can customize the default keyboard shortcuts to your requirements.

You can also create hot keys. Hot keys are keyboard shortcuts that start applications.

Figure 9–5 Keyboard Shortcuts Preference Tool

Keyboard Shortcuts preference tool. The context describes the graphic.

Table 9–5 lists the keyboard shortcut settings that you can customize.

Table 9–5 Default Settings for Keyboard Shortcuts

Option 

Function 

Text editing shortcuts

Select one of the following settings: 

  • Default: Use this setting for standard shortcut keys.

  • Emacs: Use this setting for Emacs shortcut keys.

Desktop shortcuts

This table lists actions and the shortcut keys that are associated with each action.  

To change the shortcut keys for an action, click on the action to select the action, then click on the shortcut for the action. Press the keys that you want to associate with the action. 

To disable the shortcut keys for an action, click on the action to select the action, then click on the shortcut for the action. Press Back Space.

Custom Shortcuts

To add a hot key, perform the following steps: 

  1. Click New. A Custom Binding dialog is displayed. Enter the command to associate with the hot key in the New Command field. Alternatively, to browse for the command, click on the Browse button. When you have selected the command, click OK. The command is added to the Custom Shortcuts section of the Desktop shortcuts table.

  2. Click in the Shortcut column of the command in the Custom bindings section of the Desktop shortcuts table. Press the key or key combination that you want to associate with the command.

To edit a hot key, select the hot key in the Custom Shortcuts section of the Desktop shortcuts table, then click Edit. Edit the command in the Custom Binding dialog.

To remove a hot key, select the hot key in the Custom Shortcuts section of the Desktop shortcuts table, then click Delete.