[Techtalk] Starting apps with keyboard in Gnome

[Conor Daly]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 07:05:31PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
David Sumbler thought:
> 
> Because she is the sort of person who tends to get frightened by unusual
> behaviour from the computer, and seems to find it difficult to follow a
> sequence of instructions, I thought that I would install a script on her
> machine, with the line "killall evolution", and set up a hotkey to
> activate it - e.g. Ctrl-Alt-E.  (Remember, she can't use the mouse on
> these occasions, so it has to be activated from the keyboard.)

According to 'man inittab', this is possible.  Limiting its action to a
single user may be a bit harder though you could script that.

kbrequest
      The process will be executed when init receives  a  signal from
      the  keyboard handler that a special key combination was pressed
      on the console keyboard.

      The documentation for this function is not  complete  yet; more
      documentation can be found in the kbd-x.xx packages (most recent
      was kbd-0.94 at the time of this writing). Basically you want to
      map  some  keyboard  combination to the "KeyboardSignal" action.
      For example, to map Alt-Uparrow for this purpose use the follow-
      ing in your keymaps file:

      alt keycode 103 = KeyboardSignal

 
> Can this be done in Gnome?  I can't seem to find how to do set keys to
> issue particular commands.
 
Don't know about this..

What about:

1. <CTRL><ALT><F1>
2. login
3. run killevo script?
4. logout
5. <ALT><F7>

Conor
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