Re: Suggestion: Link metacity and gnome-system-monitor

[Paul Coates <Paul Coates ncl ac uk>]

On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 02:41, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 02:32, Paul Coates wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 00:04, Seth Nickell wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 10:42, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Mark Finlay <sisob eircom net> writes:
> > > > > I think that it would be really useful if metacity had a default
> > > > > keybinding to bring up the gnome-system-monitor.
> > > > > 
> > > > > When a program crashes most user's habitual behavior is to press
> > > > > ALT+CTRL+DEL - at the moment they then realise that that does nothing
> > > > > and go looking for a way to kill the app. It would be a lot more
> > > > > intritive, IMHO, if ALT+CTRL+DEL ran the system-monitor.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I added a metacity feature to run commands in response to keybindings
> > > > the other day; so you can trivially set this up.
> > > > 
> > > > The question is just whether to do so by default I guess.
> > > 
> > > I can't think of a major downside to it, and it probably would help some
> > > Windows users, so I think its probably worth doing it by default.
> > 
> > Are there any key bindings to increase and decrease the volume rather
> > than use the Volume Control in the panel? I've seen this used in MacOSX
> > and I think there should be a default binding for this as it is the one
> > applet that I interact with more than any other, OR if there are already
> > keybinding for this what are they?
> 
> Install acme, it does that.
> http://www.hadess.net/files/acme-1.99.5.tar.gz
> 
> Shots:
> http://www.hadess.net/files/shots/acme.jpg
> and the prefs:
> http://www.hadess.net/files/shots/21-05-2002.3.jpg

I've tried acme now and it does exactly what I wanted and then some,

Great Work.

Thanks,

Paul

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