OSX allows user to add custom keyboard shortcuts for menu items. For instance you can define a custom keyboard shortcut for "Copy" and it will work for every application that has a menu item called Copy.
Is there a way to do this for GTK and/or KDE applications?
Interestingly, it turns out this is almost impossible to do. Remapping Alt key to behave as another Ctrl key is not a solution because you lose the Alt key functionalities (some of which are essential, like Alt+Tab).
So how can I get a behavior similar to MacOS where cmd key is used for keyboard shortcuts (but also for switching between windows with cmd+Tab)?
I know I can assign Ctrl+Tab to switch between windows after I remap Alt key as a Ctrl key. But then I lose the real Ctrl+Tab functionality in some applications, which are also critical like switching tabs in Chrome. Basically my Ctrl and Alt keys would become the same key and it will be impossible to have two different set of shortcuts for these two modifier keys.
A good solution for me would probably be a way to catch Alt+C, Alt+V, Alt+X, etc. at the window management level and send instead a Ctrl+C or Ctrl+V or Ctrl+X etc. to the focused window. On Windows this was possible via AutoHotKey. On Linux, I heard about an application called AutoKey but unlike AutoHotKey you have to use a GUI to set the shortcuts. Since I will be writing almost all combinations of Alt manually, I don't want a GUI application do to this. I should be able to configure it by writing a text file.
Is it possible to achieve this either with Gnome or Xmonad?
I am using Microsoft Explorer Touch Mouse and I am trying to get two buttons recognized. Mouse, of course, comes with a custom software for Windows and Macosx to customize the buttons, but not for Linux.
Unfortunately, xev just ignores those two button presses.
Is it possible at all to get them recognized? If it is, where do I start?
I download and try to compile the source code for GTK2:
sudo apt-get build-dep libgtk2.0-0
sudo apt-get source libgtk2.0-0
cd gtk+2.0-2.24.6/
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
And I get an error:
In file included from gtkquery.c:26:0:
gtkquery.h:31:2: error: #error "gtkfilechooserprivate.h is not supported API for general use"
Interestingly, I can compile GTK3 with no problems at all with the same steps above. I am using Oneiric.
If i try debuild, I get thousands of
dpkg-source: error: cannot represent change to gtk+2.0-2.24.6/something/something: binary file contents changed
In Ubuntu (Gnome) there is absolutely no way the change the mouse wheel scroll rate for GTK applications. It is hard-coded in GTK and determined by a "smart" algorithm which dynamically depends on the window size.
So I downloaded the source and found the function that returns the step value. I changed it to return a very small number first, and then 0 (to see if it has any affect at all).
I did
./configure
make
sudo make install
as instructed by GTK website.
It compiles with no problems (I have the libraries)
Bu then, I restart and it has absolutely no affect. My guess is Ubuntu is still using the original GTK it shipped with. What do you think is wrong here?