A question about adding keyboard shortcuts in mate

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Howdy,

I dont use Mate but i know there is something to bind shortcuts. What happens if you run it from terminal:

mate-keybinding-properties

There is also xbindkeys

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xbindkeys

> If I can't do it, how am I supposed to recognize the current window? I'd
Well you can try using the „run“ using  alt + f1

Cheers

> Am 27.07.2021 um 08:57 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>:
> 
> Hello there,
> 
> What I was thinking of doing was assigning a keyboard shortcut to
> ocrdesktop, plus ocrdesktop with everyone of it's flags.
> I could do that in Gnome, but I can't do it in Mate, and I can't install
> gnome, because some apps, LIOS for example, don't like GTK4 for some
> reason, and throw errors.
> In Gnome I could just say, create a keyboard shortcut, for example,
> ctrl+alt+shift+1, with name, ocrdesktop, and with command, ocrdesktop, and
> it would work, I'd just have to write it all down, which was kool.
> In Mate, however, I have to find the app, which sucks.
> If I can't do it, how am I supposed to recognize the current window? I'd
> have to type ocrdesktop from the terminal, and that would recognize the
> current window, so the terminal, and I don't know if unrestricting that
> function so it can recognize the entire workspace would do it.
> Thanks for any answer.
> Best regards.
> Francisco.
> 
>> On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 2:19 AM Linux for blind general discussion <
>> blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hey there,
>> 
>> hmm, I'd firstly ask, does it really matter?
>> 
>> I mean, you're most likely going to attach flags to the command anyway,
>> so it shouldn't be much of an issue if OCRDesktop is not present among
>> the installed apps.
>> 
>> Just make sure it's present in either /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin
>> according to the way you installed it and it should work just fine.
>> 
>> 
>> Best regards
>> 
>> 
>> Rastislav
>> 
>> 
>> Dňa 25. 7. 2021 o 17:59 Linux for blind general discussion napísal(a):
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> 
>>> For reasons like emacspeak not liking pipewire,  and lios not liking
>> gtk4,
>>> I decided to do a clean install of arch with Mate with pulseaudio  and
>> now
>>> everything works as expected.
>>> I am having a problem though: I installed ocrdesktop, but I can't seem to
>>> figure out how to bind a key binding to the command ocrdesktop.
>>> When I go into the control center, select keyboard shortcuts and click on
>>> add, it gives me the name field, where I type ocr current window, and the
>>> command field, where I type ocrdesktop.
>>> When I select browse applications though, and even when I click on show
>> all
>>> applications, ocrdesktop doesn't show up.
>>> Any idea how to fix this?
>>> Best regards.
>>> Francisco.
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