[Solved] Executing a Script from a Keyboard Shortcut

[Josh117]

Over the past few days, I have been looking for a way to make a script run after pressing a keyboard shortcut. After some searching online, I was not able to find a solution.

I want to be able to have a message box pop up that says "Linux is NOT Windows" whenever you press Ctrl-Alt-Del (because I like my computer to have personality ).

This is my script:

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#!/bin/bash

zenity --warning --title='Ctrl-Alt-Del' --text='Linux is NOT Windows!'
exit 0

Then, I used the Commands plugin in Compiz to run the script and binding <Control><Alt>Delete to the command.

Unfortunately, this only resulted in every opened program to lock up for some reason...

I understand that there are some sources of error that could be the reason this does not work, such as Compiz doesn't allow this kind of thing, or I wrote the script wrong, and so on, but I do not know which one it is.

If someone could help me with this, it would be much appreciated.

Josh

[xenopeek]

Open "Keyboard Shortcuts" from the menu. Add a new shortcut. Give it some name, and type the full path to your script, like so:

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bash -c /home/somebody/somewhere/myscript.bash

Then find your shortcut by name again, at the bottom of the list in the main window. Click at the end to set the keyboard shortcut.

[Pilosopong Tasyo]

You can forgo the script and directly add the whole zenity line in the Command field. It's only a one-liner anyway.

[Josh117]

Thanks for the solutions; they both work wonderfully. Now I can't wait for a Windows user to fall into my trap...