Hamster time tracker global hotkey

[taotree]

I read on sites describing Hamster that there was a global hotkey to access it. It doesn't appear to work and I can't find anything in preferences about it. Is there some way to get it to work?

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 64-bit.

[belda]

If you are using compiz, you can use command plugin and to some hotkey assign this command, which will bring up dialog asking for current activity...

hamster-cli start "$(zenity --entry --text="Activity?")"

You need the zenity package installed.