Re: A question about adding keyboard shortcuts in mate

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Hello there,

The trick with the run dialog works, I didn't really think about it, since
I rarely use it. In fact, the only scenario in which I have used it is to
issue an orca -r command.
Thanks so much!
Best regards.
Francisco.

On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 5:14 AM Linux for blind general discussion <
blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > 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@xxxxxxxxxx> 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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