GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 131617
Keyboard shortcut to xkill in "Keyboard Shortcuts"
Last modified: 2020-11-07 12:35:45 UTC
Description of Problem: In the Keyboard Shortcuts control center module, there is no option for a shortcut to XKill. This is particularly important because many times programs freeze up and I have to access xkill via the command line. KDE uses <ctrl><alt><esc> to activate this feature. Perhaps a similar feature could be implemented in GNOME. I guess the greater issue with GNOME is that I can't make shortcuts to any program. The best solution would be to allow user defined keyboard shortcuts for user defined programs. This is currently not an option in GNOME. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Just go to the control center module and check it out. Actual Results: XKill only accessible through the command line or "Run Application..." or a launcher. Expected Results: XKill keyboard shortcut, like <ctrl><alt><esc> How often does this happen? Lots of programs freeze and the GNOME "Not responding" dialog box doesn't show up. Additional Information: N/A
This should use the gnome-panel's interface, rather than xkill. it's in gnome-panel/gnome-panel/panel-force-quit.[ch]
Moving to metacity, as it's the one implementing the "Run dialogue" binding already.
>> Keyboard shortcut to xkill in "Keyboard Shortcuts" Why don't you just use one of the 15 self-definable keybindings MCity provides? Then you get your Keybinding without having to modify MCity.
(In reply to comment #3) > >> Keyboard shortcut to xkill in "Keyboard Shortcuts" > > Why don't you just use one of the 15 self-definable keybindings MCity provides? > Then you get your Keybinding without having to modify MCity. Because it can't call the function we need it to in the panel.
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