On Thursday 18 December 2014, Michele Calgaro wrote: > On 2014/12/18 10:49 PM, Gerhard Zintel wrote: > > On Thursday 18 December 2014, Michele Calgaro wrote: > >> On 12/18/2014 05:47 AM, Gerhard Zintel wrote: > >>> anyone any idea how to add a keyboard shortcut to an > >>> application that is not contained in the global menus? > >>> > >>> thanx for help Gerhard > >>> > >> > >> Hi Gerhard, do you mean: 1) add a shortcut to launch an > >> application? In this case, is the application in the TDE menu? 2) > >> or add a shortcut to an application's action? > >> > >> Cheers Michele > > > > Hi Michele, > > > > sorry for beeing not clear enough - neither of the two examples > > above. I want to launch a shell program (that is not contained in > > the TDE menu) by pressing a keyboard shortcut; e.g. pressing > > Ctrl-AnyKey to launch /usr/local/bin/AnyProgram. > > > > Is this possible from within TDE? Or is the question totally > > unrelated to TDE? > > Hi Gerhard, > would it be a problem if the shell program is added to the TDE menu? I wanted to avoid it. But if it's the "easy" solution I'll give it a try. What I want to accomplish is to suspend the system with a keypress (not using the menue for this). There are two reasons for not using TDE's menu for suspend: a) it's faster; b) using my script the screen isn't locked after resume and I have not found the possibility to do this by using the "Log Out ... > Suspend" TDE menu where the screen always is locked. > Then it would be possible to assign a keyboard shortcut to it. I will > have to experiment a little bit to be sure, but first please let me > know the answer to the question above. Thanks a lot for your help but please don't bother here. This I surely am able to do by myself. > I might go to sleep soon, so I will probably answer again tomorrow. Thanks again and sleep well Gerhard