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Hi there. First, I'd like to thank the compiz team and the Beryl team as well, for their commitment and responsiveness. I've been using Beryl for a long time, but it stopped working on my laptop a few months ago. I recently checked the 3D Desktop option on Ubuntu Feisty (compiz powered), and it worked smoothly, so I'm back to compiz.

My goal is to create a shortcut for hidding/showing the top panel in Gnome (XGL+compiz+latest ATI drivers), something like Ctrl+Alt+p. I looked at gconftool-2 and then found this script. When written in a terminal, the gconftool-2 commands do edit the gconf keys, but nothing happens. Moreover, it seems the shortcut has no effect, in that it's not active/recognized (Ctrl+Alt+p defined in gconf-editor does not trigger any change in gconf keys). I tried '/apps/compiz/general/allscreens/options/command1' and '/apps/compiz/general/allscreens/options/run_command1_button' as well : unactive shortcut.

Note : in his blog post, Raja put his script on his home, but I must use sudo in order to edit gconf keys, so I put my script in /usr/local/bin. I wonder if I must add myself (user) in a group or something like that, or anything else I'm not thinking about at this time due to a lack of geekness.

If any of you has an idea, on which keys should be edited for example, fell free to share
Thank you.
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Old May 27th, 2007, 06:38 AM
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Hi sounds interesting, maybe you should take a look at xbindkeys.

I suppose something similar to this at xbindkeyrc should make it

Code:

'gnome-panel'
(xbindkey '(altl 'keycode' 'keycode') 'command/hidding'

or

Code:

(xbindkey '(control 'b:2') 'command/hidding'

(b:2 is mouse button 2)


here you have a good example, of what can be done.

http://hocwp.free.fr/xbindkeys/xbindkeysrc.scm.html

but, I don't really know if there is a hiding command.
:? I supposed that you could navigate gnome without mouse."