Keyboard shortcut NOT working in Mint - Mate

I like to add a keyboard shortcut with "xkill"

Following the instructions lead to nothing
After adding the "name" and "command"
there is no way to couple a key combination.

Edmund

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On 4/26/22 23:23, Edmund wrote:

Cannot make a keyboard shortcut for "xkill" Mint mate

>
> I like to add a keyboard shortcut with "xkill"
>
> Following the instructions lead to nothing
> After adding the "name" and "command"
> there is no way to couple a key combination.
>
> Edmund
>
>
>
>

--
“The further a society drift from the truth,
the more it will hate those who speak it”

George Orwell

Edmund wrote:
> Keyboard shortcut NOT working in Mint - Mate
>
> I like to add a keyboard shortcut with "xkill"
>
> Following the instructions lead to nothing
> After adding the "name" and "command"
> there is no way to couple a key combination.

I don't know what instructions you are following.

I dl/ed LM Mate 20.3 and wrote it to a multiboot Ventoy stick and booted
it. xkill was installed by default in the x11-utils package and it is
located in /usr/bin. Its default permissions are root. For some reason
I had trouble authenticating the hash, tho' I had the key.

xkill doesn't have a default shortcut, but an existing default shortcut
is alt-F2 from which you can execute

sudo xkill

That lets you choose a window to kill by clicking on it.

So, if your problem is creating a shortcut, maybe you need to use chown
to give your user ownership of xkill if you aren't going to use the sudo
command for it.

--
Mike Easter

Mike Easter wrote:
> So, if your problem is creating a shortcut, maybe you need to use chown
> to give your user ownership of xkill if you aren't going to use the sudo
> command for it.

I changed the ownership of Mate's xkill and I created a custom shortcut,
but it didn't work; giving me an error that I didn't understand:

"Error while trying to run (ctrl+alt+k) which is linked to the key (<alt>k)"

There was an earlier different error when I tried to make the shortcut
ctrl+alt+k, then I changed it to alt+k.

So, I don't yet understand how to make a working shortcut for xkill in
Mint Mate, but I can perform xkill w/ shortcuts to the command.

--
Mike Easter

On 4/29/22 01:35, Mike Easter wrote:
> Edmund wrote:
>> Keyboard shortcut NOT working in Mint - Mate
>>
>> I like to add a keyboard shortcut with "xkill"
>>
>> Following the instructions lead to nothing
>> After adding the "name" and "command"
>> there is no way to couple a key combination.
>
> I don't know what instructions you are following.

Well under -Control Center- Keyboard Shortcuts there is an option "Add"

I would think that add option should make it possible to add something
but I might be wrong.

Selecting "add" opens a window (1) with "custom shortcut" and a "name"
for it and a "command"

Then there is "Apply", so far so good, instructions :
"To edit a shortcut key, double-click on the corresponding row and type
a new key combination, or press backspace to clear"

Double clicking on the created xkill row just opens the window (1) again
and no way to create a shortcut key combination.

Edmund

>
> I dl/ed LM Mate 20.3 and wrote it to a multiboot Ventoy stick and booted
> it.  xkill was installed by default in the x11-utils package and it is
> located in /usr/bin.  Its default permissions are root.  For some reason
> I had trouble authenticating the hash, tho' I had the key.
>
> xkill doesn't have a default shortcut, but an existing default shortcut
> is alt-F2 from which you can execute
>
> sudo xkill
>
> That lets you choose a window to kill by clicking on it.
>
> So, if your problem is creating a shortcut, maybe you need to use chown
> to give your user ownership of xkill if you aren't going to use the sudo
> command for it.
>

--
“The further a society drift from the truth,
the more it will hate those who speak it”

George Orwell

Edmund wrote:
> Selecting "add" opens a window (1) with "custom shortcut" and a "name"
> for it and a "command"
>
> Then there is "Apply", so far so good, instructions :
> "To edit a shortcut key, double-click on the corresponding row and type
> a new key combination, or press backspace to clear"
>
> Double clicking on the created xkill row just opens the window (1) again
> and no way to create a shortcut key combination.
>
I was able to do it now.

First I used chown to change the permission for xkill.

Then I created a custom shortcut named xkill whose command was xkill.
Then I double-clicked the xkill item in the Custom shortcut section and
used my alt-k combo to populate that shortcut section.

Then I started the Image viewer and used alt-k, an x appeared in the
viewer's window and I clicked it and the viewer closed.

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Mike Easter

Mike Easter wrote:
> I changed the ownership of Mate's xkill and I created a custom shortcut,
> but it didn't work; giving me an error that I didn't understand:

When I was trying to do this before, I had activated sticky keys, which
I prefer. Occsly sticky keys condition interferes w/ some modifier key
functions; usually not.

--
Mike Easter

Mike Easter wrote:
> an x appeared in the viewer's window

That is, a cursor w/ an X icon. If one had several windows open they
could move the X to the window/app they wanted to close.

--
Mike Easter

On 4/29/22 18:17, Mike Easter wrote:
> Edmund wrote:
>> Selecting "add" opens a window (1) with "custom shortcut" and a "name"
>> for it and a "command"
>>
>> Then there is "Apply", so far so good, instructions :
>> "To edit a shortcut key, double-click on the corresponding row and
>> type a new key combination, or press backspace to clear"
>>
>> Double clicking on the created xkill row just opens the window (1)
>> again and no way to create a shortcut key combination.
>>
> I was able to do it now.
>
> First I used chown to change the permission for xkill.
>
> Then I created a custom shortcut named xkill whose command was xkill.
> Then I double-clicked the xkill item in the Custom shortcut section and
> used my alt-k combo to populate that shortcut section.
>
> Then I started the Image viewer and used alt-k, an x appeared in the
> viewer's window and I clicked it and the viewer closed.
>
>

I like to try that, how exactly did you do that step by step?

Go to /usr/bin and CHANGED ownership to what?

I don't see why that keyboard shortcut should work after you changed the
ownership, but if you tell me how you did it, I will try

--
“The further a society drift from the truth,
the more it will hate those who speak it”

George Orwell

Edmund wrote:
> Go to /usr/bin and CHANGED ownership to what?
>
In my case, I was using a live Mint Mate 20.3 whose default user was
mint. I opened a terminal in /usr/bin and used the command sudo su to
get a 'root' # prompt.

Then I used the command chown mint xkill to change the owner to mint and
exited the root term.

> I don't see why that keyboard shortcut should work after you changed the
> ownership, but if you tell me how you did it, I will try

Then I went to the keyboard shortcuts; you can get there by navigating
graphically or you can command mate-keybinding-properties.

Then I did what I said in MID: <jd2hctFc3pnU1@mid.individual.net>

> Then I created a custom shortcut named xkill whose command was xkill.
> Then I double-clicked the xkill item in the Custom shortcut section and
> used my alt-k combo to populate that shortcut section.

--
Mike Easter

On 4/29/22 20:58, Mike Easter wrote:
> Edmund wrote:
>> Go to /usr/bin and CHANGED ownership to what?
>>
> In my case, I was using a live Mint Mate 20.3 whose default user was
> mint.  I opened a terminal in /usr/bin and used the command sudo su to
> get a 'root' # prompt.
>
> Then I used the command chown mint xkill to change the owner to mint and
> exited the root term.
>
>> I don't see why that keyboard shortcut should work after you changed
>> the ownership, but if you tell me how you did it, I will try
>
> Then I went to the keyboard shortcuts; you can get there by navigating
> graphically or you can command mate-keybinding-properties.
>
> Then I did what I said in MID: <jd2hctFc3pnU1@mid.individual.net>

I don't know what this : "<jd2hctFc3pnU1@mid.individual.net>"
means, anyway nothing changed here.
I will dump mate and go back to XFCE

--
“The further a society drift from the truth,
the more it will hate those who speak it”

George Orwell

Edmund wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote:
>>
>> Then I did what I said in MID: <jd2hctFc3pnU1@mid.individual.net>
>
> I don't know what this : "<jd2hctFc3pnU1@mid.individual.net>"
>  means, anyway nothing changed here.
>
That is a message ID:

http://al.howardknight.net/?ID=165125864500
From: Mike Easter
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.mint
Subject: Re: Keyboard shortcut NOT working in MInt - Mate
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 09:17:32 -0700
Message-ID: <jd2hctFc3pnU1@mid.individual.net>

and/but I pasted the salient content into the msg (anyway):

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Mike Easter

On 4/30/2022 12:45 PM, Edmund wrote:
> On 4/29/22 20:58, Mike Easter wrote:
>> Edmund wrote:
>>> Go to /usr/bin and CHANGED ownership to what?
>>>
>> In my case, I was using a live Mint Mate 20.3 whose default user was mint.  I opened a terminal in /usr/bin and used the command sudo su to get a 'root' # prompt.
>>
>> Then I used the command chown mint xkill to change the owner to mint and exited the root term.
>>
>>> I don't see why that keyboard shortcut should work after you changed the ownership, but if you tell me how you did it, I will try
>>
>> Then I went to the keyboard shortcuts; you can get there by navigating graphically or you can command mate-keybinding-properties.
>>
>> Then I did what I said in MID: <jd2hctFc3pnU1@mid.individual.net>
>
> I don't know what this : "<jd2hctFc3pnU1@mid.individual.net>"
>  means, anyway nothing changed here.
> I will dump mate and go back to XFCE
>

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