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Hotkey not working

Asked by ptscott

I just installed gnome-do, and it's working fine when launched from command line or the applications menu.

But pressing super-space does nothing. Is there some way I can get this working? I'm using Ubuntu Gutsy

thanks

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Peter Stuifzand (peter-stuifzand) said : 		#1

Do you have any plugins installed?

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Best Ryan Thompson (rct86) said : 		#2

Gnome Do uses a library provided by Tomboy (the GNOME sticky-note applet) to provide its hotkey binding. If you run Do in a terminal, you will see it output a warning like this if it can't find the Tomboy libs:

2/21/2008 6:18:18 PM [Error]: libtomboy not found - keybindings will not work.
2/21/2008 6:18:18 PM [Info]: Binding key '<Super>space' for '/apps/gnome-do/preferences/key_binding'. You may change this keybinding with Configuration Editor (gconf-editor).
2/21/2008 6:18:18 PM [Error]: Could not add global keybinding: libtomboy

If you don't want to install Tomboy, there is an alternate way to set up a hotkey using the keybinding program of your choice (e.g. xbindkeys). Simply bind a key to the following command:

dbus-send --session --type=method_call --dest='org.gnome.Do' '/org/gnome/Do/Controller' 'org.gnome.Do.Controller.Summon'

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ptscott (ptscott) said : 		#3

thanks!

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ptscott (ptscott) said : 		#4

Thanks Darwin Award Winner, that solved my question.