Alright this is where we’re going to make our own hotkey for whatever program that you have installed. Now there’s two ways to do this, I'm going to show you the compiz way since most people have compiz anyways, so you have to have the advanced manager or maybe the other one, but I'm not sure I have the advanced manager. You go into the general options here, click on that and where it says command here, that’s where we’re going to go, now you can expand this, so this command like zero one two three is going to match up with the keys binding here, right it’s going to match up with this. So whatever you type on whatever line make sure it’s the right key combo.
So the fist one is an X kill, that’s my favorite. To kill a frozen app or something, it’s like forced quit, it’s the same thing. So x kill is the command, now we’re going to assign a key to it. it’s disabled right now when you click on it. and I click on enable and where’re going to put grab key combo. Now you click on this and then use our keyboard to whatever combo you like. I'm going to put ctrl + alt + insert and that’s my combo for that.
Now there’s another way to do this if you have Ubuntu tweaks, right here you can do that too, in a personal type, I think it’s better with the Ubuntu tweaks anyways and there’s a shortcut, and like we already signed X kill to the first one right, so the second one we’re going to assign something else. Maybe the task manager or the system monitor I mean. Where is the command for that? The command for that is been known, dash system monitor, and click on this and it tell us to the hot key everyone, we don’t a ctrl + alt + N so we have our key combo here and we have our command. So let’s try this out, lets say our terminal here, it’s frozen right, now how would you kill that? we use your hotkey which is X kill; ctrl + alt + insert and we have the little x right, click on it and it’s gone, see. So that is what X kill does, it’s a force quit, app quit. Lets say you want to use the system monitor right, so ctrl + alt + N and we have our system monitor. So you can assign any hotkey that you like to any program that you have installed. If you don’t know the commands to it, like you know the commands here, you don’t know the commands to it, you can always head up to your menus. Your menu here and edit menu right click on and then edit menu. And it should open.
Now with this, let’s say maybe the sound of NVIDIA that you want audacity or something and you don’t know the command to it, properties and its audacity, just copy paste that in there, its done. Its usually the name of it in lower case for the program. But if it is not like sound juicer and then some percentage and you, just copy paste that into your command list in here, and assign a hotkey and it will activate it. so that’s how you will do the shortcut keys or the hotkeys to your liking. So I definitely dig it, anything that freezes on me I just use the X kill and I hope it just kills it off. So go try that out, it’s by the most useful one.
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