Is there a way to have keyboard shortcuts in Lubuntu

[theweasel2345]

I just want to have Ctrl+T as my Terminal shortcut but I dont know how with the Lubuntu distro

[patchwork]

check out xbindkeys, I don't believe LXDE comes with a default shortcut option like Gnome.

[curiousgeorgej]

To see what keyboard shortcut bindings are currently set, and to add more without using xbindkeys, you can dig through the following file and edit it:

/home/<user>/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml

I imagine you can figure it out just fine, but for a quick start, at least on PC hardware,
A- means "Alt+"
C- means "Ctrl+"
S- means "Shift+"
W- means the "Windows" key
so, for example, C-A-T is ctrl+alt+"t", which runs a terminal window.

I found the meat of this information (and a bit more) here, on the lxde forums: http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=457

There might be even more on the openbox forums, but I'm happy with this solution.

Cheers,
~George J.

[urukrama]

As curiousgeorgej said, you don't need xbindkeys for this. Openbox itself can manage keybindings. You might find the official documentation useful as well: http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Bindings

Please note that if you use LXDE, you will need to edit the lxde-rc.xml file, and not the rc.xml file that Openbox normally uses and that will be referred to in most documentation.

To launch a terminal with the keybindings Ctrl T, you would add the following to your (lxde-)rc.xml in the <keyboard> section:

<keybind key="C-t">
    <action name="execute">
        <command>urxvt</command>
      </action>
  </keybind>

Replace urxvt with whatever terminal you prefer to use.

You might also be interested in this post I wrote some time ago: http://urukrama.wordpress.com/2008/0...x-keybindings/

[nshram]

Hello,

I have been using Lubuntu on a P3 700.
I need to remap some shortcuts.
But nothing works:

1. commented out the keybindings in /home/<user>/.config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml
2. renamed above file to lxde-rc.xml

what gives?

[Gaygerbil]

It seems to me the keyboard shortcut support for Lubuntu/LXDE is a joke. You can't use custom commands? And that's if I could get it to actually work, I haven't been able to get anything to work, i got the GUI to display but it doesn't change any of the keys.

Perhaps I need to log in and out but or restart but I'm just not gonna bother with it.

EDIT:

In Lubuntu 10.10 they seem to be working a lot better now, it was a lil try doing the config for the keys but it works now at least.