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Re: [trinity-users] keyboard shortcut to start application

From: Gerhard Zintel <gerhard.zintel@...>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 14:09:20 +0100
On Friday 19 December 2014, Michele Calgaro wrote:
> >>> Is this possible from within TDE? Or is the question totally unrelated to TDE?
> 
> Hi Gerhard,
> I found a way to do it without adding an entry to the TDE menu.
> Go to Control Panel -> Regional & Accessibility -> Input Actions, create a new action, action type is "Keyboard
> Shortcut -> Command/URL (simple)". Then add the keyboard shortcut in the second tab and in the third tab enter the
> command
> xterm -e "bash path/to/your/script.sh"
> Apply and your are done.
> You need to install xterm if you don't have it already.
> 
> Cheers
>   Michele
Hi Michele,

thanks again. It works. Two comments though:
1)
I don't have "Regional & Accessibility" entry. I have 2 entries "Regional & Language" and "Accesibility". I found it in the latter.

2)
I used my command directly without launching a xterm and it works as well

Case closed :-)
Gerhard