Home / ubuntu / Questions / 890683
Accepted
mpen
Asked: 2017-03-08 14:25:13 +0800 CST

How to use || in Keyboard shortcuts?

  • 772

I want to map a keyboard key to this command:

wmctrl -a Calculator || gnome-calculator

This works fine when I run it in the terminal, but it doesn't seem to work when I set up a shortcut for this. I'm guessing it doesn't like the ||.

Specifically, it will focus the calculator if it's already open, but it won't open it if it's not already open (which is what the OR condition is supposed to do).

How can I work around this?

enter image description here

keyboard

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I don't think the keyboard shorcuts are ran through bash, so || won't work. However, you can do this:

    sh -c 'wmctrl -Fxa gnome-calculator.Gnome-calculator || gnome-calculator'

    -F means match the full title case-sensitively, and -a means activate/focus said program, -x means select by the "WM_CLASS" name which you can get by running wmctrl -xl.

    • 2