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How to create keyboard shortcut from xfce terminal

So i want to run flameshoot with keyboard shortcut. In terminal i can do flameshoot gui , but i want to know how to do this with keyboard shortcut. How to add command to shortcut?

btw i use xfce4 environment

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• xfce4-terminal

Every desktop environment has a facility to define custom keyboard shortcuts, typically somewhere in the Settings. Through a dialog, you can define a label, the command to run ( flameshot gui ) and then a shortcut key that will trigger the command.

This is basic functionality in a desktop environment. You are expected to take some time to learn your desktop environment, so read the help files for the details on where this is found and how this works in the XFCE desktop environment.

• thanks for the tip –  Flitzcore Sep 14, 2022 at 13:33

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How to configure Shortcuts / Hotkeys / Menu Accelerators ?

A number of Xfce applications (Thunar, for example) support the standard GTK2 way of changing shortcuts: simply hover over the menu option with the mouse pointer and press the keyboard shortcut you want to rebind it to.

To delete a keyboard assignment, press the Backspace key while you are on the menu entry.

If the shortcut doesn't change, then you need to enable the feature in GTK+. This can be achieved in 3 ways:

• If you are running the Xfce desktop environment, enable Editable menu accelerators in the User Interface Preferences dialog.
• If you are running GNOME then you can enable Editable menu accelerators in the Menu and Toolbars control center dialog.
• Otherwise put the following in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file (create the file if it doesn't exist): gtk-can-change-accels=1

Assign a key with the Keyboard Settings → Shortcuts to the command xfdesktop -menu . (This does not work reliably since Linux Kernel is tickless, so xfdesktop -menu needs a fix) The menu will popup where your mouse is located. You can also use xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu to popup the panel menu (also provided by xfdesktop and make sure you have the plugin in your panel ^_~).

Assign a key to the command verve-focus

The windows button (also known as the superkey) not working as a modifier is related to the toolkit, GTK+ in the case of Xfce. If you want to have the windows-key working we recommend you to upgrade GTK+ to at least version 2.10.0.

How do I get numlock to start on login?

There are two possibilities to achieve this. Or you should use a display manager that turns the numlock on (eg. gdm, check the settings) or you can use a little program called numlockx , adding numlockx on in your .xinitrc will do the job.

Use xmodmap to assign keycodes to your Media keys to make them available for the Xfce shortcut editor:

To determine keycodes of the multimedia keys use the program xev . Create a .Xmodmap file in your $HOME directory containing those keycodes and assign keysyms to them.

Here are some examples of keycodes and their respective keysyms:

All possible keysyms can be found in /usr/lib/X11/XKeysymDB or /usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB . To ensure that the .Xmodmap file is loaded when you start Xfce add /usr/bin/xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap to your .xinitrc or .xprofile file. When you start the shortcut editor, the assigned keysyms should show up when you press one of your multimedia keys. Now it is possible to assign a command to them.

Note: Several problems with auto-loading of .Xmodmap files at Xfce startup have been reported (also when issued as autostart command). Search the Xfce Bugzilla sites for current problems. As a workaround, run xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap by hand every time, or try out editing the somewhat less straightforward xkb configuration files.

How to determine keycodes with ''xev''

All keyboards are different, keycodes can differ and not everyone has time to search XKeysymDB file. You can acquire keycodes manually from your keyboard using the application xev .

In a terminal type the following:

Next, press the key that you need the keycode from(e.g. When the key “Stop” is pressed, the output is “174 XF86AudioStop”.

There are several options. One is to use xfce4-xkb-plugin , see xkb plugin . You can also use the setxkbmap command with the two letter keyboard code as argument; you can edit your X server configuration file to choose a different keyboard layout (change the value after Option “XkbLayout” , e.g.: Option “XkbLayout” “dvorak” ).

Yes, of course. Keyboard shortcuts are defined in two locations. The shortcuts to handle the window manager are defined in the Settings Manager > Window Manager Settings > Keyboard. The Default theme can not be changed; but, when you add a theme you can change that the theme you just added.

More global keyboard shortcuts, like volume adjustments, can be found in Settings Manager > Keyboard Preferences > Shortcuts. Again, you need to add a new theme before you can start customizing it.

Use the following command, which will produce a nicely formatted text list to standard output:

If you want to put this list into a file, add > filename at the end of command.

It is not currently possible to do this.

The left-button single-click menu button display speed is linked to the double click speed. If one wants the menu to appear quicker, just change the double click speed in the Xfce 4 Settings Manager Mouse properties to be faster. Or, one can right click on the title bar to get the menu displayed almost instantly without adjusting the double-click speed. The menu will display both ways.

There are two possibilities. The first is by middle clicking on the desktop (if you have xfdesktop running) or you can add the window list plugin to the panel (is provided with a xfce4-popup-windowlist command).

Now, you already have a menu with all the categories in the main tree with some duplicates, but you must first edit menu.xml with your favorite editor and remove the 4 following lines in the middle of the file, otherwise the menu editor will complain about a wrong format:

That's all. Now you can run the menu editor, remove the few duplicates and edit all as you like.

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Notes: by removing the “system” line, you will remove all the duplicates menu entries from the auto generated file. So, if it is changed in this auto generated file, they don't appear anymore, but you will get rid of most of the duplicates.

To restore the original menu, just do in a terminal:

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It's not possible. This setting has to be managed by the application itself.

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In order to improve focus management this option was removed.

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#1 2014-05-23 07:15:09

How to set keyboard shortcuts

xfce 4.10.0-3 distributed bz Xubuntu Linux Mint 16 Petra \n \l

How are Keyboard Shortcuts set?

I do understand that there is the Windomanager/Keyboard tab and that shortcut settings should reflect in: xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml of which are three on my machine:

locate xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml /etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml /home/mfunk/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml /usr/share/mint-configuration-xfce/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml

Also I picked up that changes ought to be be reloaded by the system afer a: xfdesktop --reload

But currently my machine is in a state, were it doesn't react to any changes of the shorcuts either in the Windomanager nor in the config files. The windowmanager shows shortcuts like 'Add workspace' beeing mapped to '<Alt>Insert' but they arent mapped, as in don't work.

I haven't run through a reboot process yet, but either way I'd like to know a way to change the shortcut settings at runtime. I'm using the IntelliJ IDE and I'd like to get the shortcuts that are shadowed by xfce out of my way.

Any hints on how to get that straight?

#2 2014-05-23 10:43:34

Re: How to set keyboard shortcuts

How are Keyboard Shortcuts set? I do understand that there is the Windomanager/Keyboard tab and that shortcut settings should reflect in: xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml of which are three on my machine: locate xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml /etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml /home/mfunk/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml /usr/share/mint-configuration-xfce/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml

The first is the xfce default, the second is your currently active config file and the third looks like a mint-specific configuration file which mostly likely becomes the default on your system.

I don't think this is correct. If you make the change by editing the shortcut at Settings Manager >> Window Manager >> Keyboard, it should be automatic. If you are doing it manually by editing the configuration file, you need to kill and restart the xfconfd module. On my system, i386, the command is:

...to force Xfce to re-read the file for changes (command will be in a different location for a 64-bit install).

Is xfsettingsd running? If so, try restarting it. If not, fire it up to see if it helps.

The easiest way is to make the change directly in Settings Manager >> Window Manager >> Keyboard (assuming your system is working properly to recognize those changes).

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#3 2014-05-23 12:33:32

Using Window Manager >> Keyboard leads to a change in the user local xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml and it also is applied, as in the shortcut works after the Manager Window is closed.

#!/bin/sh killall xfconfd && /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/xfconf/xfconfd & killall xfsettingsd && xfsettingsd &

leaves the config file unchanged, but the shortcut drops back to default. The configured shortcut doesn't work anymore, but the default works again.

I figure, if i restart the machine the sam effect would take place (not tested yet)

#4 2014-05-23 13:49:27

If changing the shortcut via the front-end (Window Manager >> Keyboard) works, then there would be no need to restart xfconfd or xfsettingsd. On restart, the config file should be read and processed properly, but you'll need to test that.

#5 2019-01-15 08:38:18

Dear m68funk, I think it's a bug. If you open the shortcuts menu in settings and delete the new configured one, there appears the last "default" shortcut like if it were on a "lower layer" or below the new configured one? If so, try deleting both shortcuts configured by pressing the "clear" button and then configure the one you want. This worked for me.

I hope you find it helpful... Best regards.

#6 2019-09-17 10:39:07

The path of xfconfd changed, I think. But I can confirm that

as a script works to reload my keyboard shortcuts if I change them in the XML config file.

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• May 8, 2013
• Jérôme Guelfucci

Last week-end, our awesome Nick released new stable versions for almost all Xfce major components: libxfce4util, tumbler, xfce4-appfinder, xfce4-session, xfce4-panel, xfwm4, xfce4-settings, garcon, thunar, xfce4-terminal and tumbler (this is not amnesia, we got two releases in a single day for this component!).

I still need to release libxfce4ui 4.10.1 which would fix some keyboard shortcut issues: numpad shortcuts, shortcuts with Shift, shortcuts with Alt+Print... I need some testers for this stable branch before releasing. So grab the code on git or from this tarball and please confirm if it works fine after restarting your session. Thanks in advance for your help.

The list of changes which can be found in those stable releases in available on the Xfce Announcement mailing list . I wish you all an improved Xfce experience!

Xfce4-terminal 0.6.x keyboard shortcuts

• January 5, 2013

A lot of users seem to be wondering how to edit keyboard shortcuts in xfce4-terminal 0.6.x. The built-in shortcut editor is indeed gone and the application now uses editable GTK+ accelerators like other GTK+ applications. This is more consistent and allows to drop the exo dependency which makes the application lighter.

The FAQ of the Xfce documentation has a guide on how to edit GTK+ accelerators of xfce4-terminal. You'll get your custom shortcuts back in no time!

PS: xfce4-terminal 0.6.1 is out and has a killer "drop-down" mode ala guake / tilda. See Nick's Google+ page for screenshots.

Keyboard shortcut work landed

• December 30, 2012

After a few user interface improvements and some last bug fixes, the work I described in my last post was merged in the master branches. It is thus available for testing to all users of the Xfce development version.

Feedback on this is welcome, file any bug you find on the Xfce Bugzilla . This will of course be available in the next development release of those components.

Work in progress to improve keyboard shortcuts in Xfce

• December 23, 2012

Long time no blog! I started to hack again last week with the goal of improving keyboard shortcuts handling in Xfce. I touched that during the Xfce 4.10 cycle and this unfortunately seem to have introduced a bunch of bugs that I'm now trying to resolve. I also took this opportunity to try to overhaul the UI and make it more understandable.

This code is available in the jeromeg/keyboard-shortcuts branches of xfwm4 , libxfce4ui and xfce4-settings on the Xfce Git server . Some improvements are still planned but most of what I was planning is already implemented.

Here is a list of reported bugs which should be fixed once I merge this:

• Keyboard shortcuts on numeric keypad are ineffective
• Usability issue : the dialog for adding keyboard shortcuts isn't clear
• Unable create keyboard shortcut <Alt>+Print
• Add a button to edit/modify a keybinding
• Control modifier appears as Primary when setting shortcuts
• Keyboard shortcuts of the same shortcut
• Default shortcuts not working
• Keyboard mapping for XF86PowerButton and Ctrl+Insert ineffective
• <Shift> modifier not recognized correctly
• Keyboard shortcuts shipped by Xfce are wrong since the Gtk switch from Control to Primary

A brief summary: shortcuts now work when Caps Lock is on, shortcuts using Shift or the numeric keypad are handled correctly, a bunch of regressions are fixed, conflict handling is now more reliable and the UI should be better.

Regarding keyboard shortcuts bugs, keyboard shortcuts not working correctly after a reboot or not work working in some other cases seem to occur because of a "wrong" shortcut database often caused by a problem in the migration script in Xfce 4.6. In that case, the easier way to fix this seems to be to revert all keyboard shortcuts to default (in xfwm4-settings and xfce4-keyboard-settings) and to rebind them using the dialogs.

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Readable shortcut labels in the ui, improved dialogs to add and edit shortcuts, improved conflict handling, testing is welcome.

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The config file is at ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml

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You can change the keys in Settings control panel. Launch it by xfce4-settings-manager .

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You can set mouse so that hover will activate the window (put focus on it and bring it to front). Set in the Window Manager preference pane.

Tip: One Workspace

To make it simpler, set workspace to just 1, and turn off all keys about workspace. And just define a few, single-key, function keys, to close window or switch to your most frequently used app. Example:

For how to switch to a app, see: How to Set Key to Switch to Browser .

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Xfce is a desktop environment for Linux. It aims to be fast and visually appealing. Like Gnome, Xfce is based on the GTK toolkit but it is not a Gnome fork. It uses mouse-driven Xfwm window manager.

Web page: xfce.org

Last update: 11/11/2019 8:10 PM UTC

How easy to press shortcuts: 70%

Shortcut count: 55

Platform detected: Windows or Linux

Other languages: Turkish French

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Show desktop.

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What is your favorite Xfce hotkey? Do you have any useful tips for it? Let other users know below.

Daniel OP says : 12 months ago 12/29/2022 4:13 PM With power button set to sleep, i set this new keyboard shortcut to suspend: xfce4-session-logout --suspend

Guest OP says : 2 years ago 11/1/2021 7:57 PM There are also nice shortcuts for window arrangements: SUPER+LEFT - adjust&resize window left half of screen SUPER+RIGHT - adjust&resize window right half of screen SUPER+1 - adjust&resize window bottom-left corner on a 2x2 grid SUPER+3 - adjust&resize window bottom-right corner on a 2x2 grid SUPER+7 - adjust&resize window top-left corner on a 2x2 grid SUPER+9 - adjust&resize window top-right corner on a 2x2 grid

Zeynel Abidin Öztürk Admin says in reply to Guest : 2 years ago 11/2/2021 1:03 PM Thank you very much!

Guest OP says : 3 years ago 5/21/2021 5:13 AM Is really helpful article . I am a fan of XFCE !!

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