how to use "WIN+NUM" as a HOTKEY?

Question

I'm using 12.04, WIN+1 is a hotkey in Unity, and now I've removed unity and changed shell to gnome-shell-3.4, but I still cannot use WIN+NUM as an hotkey change to desktop NUM, I set it in system settings but nothing happens.

thks for any help.

Answer 1

I assume that you want to bind for any bash command.

1.0 First get commands to change workspace from terminal

• Go to first workspace. Open terminal and run wmctrl -d | awk '{print $6} for me it yields 0,0 note it as co-ordinates of first workspace.

• Move terminal to Next workspace and do above procedure again for all workspaces.

My output after doing above steps

virpara@Ascension:~$ wmctrl -d | awk '{print $6}' #in workspace 1
0,0
virpara@Ascension:~$ wmctrl -d | awk '{print $6}' #in workspace 2
1366,0
virpara@Ascension:~$ wmctrl -d | awk '{print $6}' #in workspace 3
0,768
virpara@Ascension:~$ wmctrl -d | awk '{print $6}' #in workspace 4
1366,768

You may be thinking What we've got after doing this? we have co-ordinates to switch to desired workspace.

We can use wmctrl -o X,Y to switch to respective workspaces. where X,Y are your workspace co-ordinates.

For me, Commands to switch to workspaces are as follows,

For Workspace 1 => wmctrl -o 0,0
For Workspace 2 => wmctrl -o 1366,0
For Workspace 3 => wmctrl -o 0,768
For Workspace 4 => wmctrl -o 1366,768

2.0 Set HotKeys for those commands

How to install AutoKey

Open software center > search for autokey > install AutoKey(GTK)

How to bind any key ?

Step 1 :

Press Ctrl+Shift+N or from File > Create.. > New Script. Rename with whatever you like.

Step 2 :

Paste below code as shown, I'll bind Super+1 to Workspace 1. Replace wmctrl -o 0,0 with your command.

import os
os.system("wmctrl -o 0,0")

Step 3 :

Then in bottom-right corner there is three Set buttons to set for Abbreviation or Hotkey or Window Filter. Click second Set button (because we want to set hotkey).

Step 4 :

Click Super then Click Press to Set and hit a key you want to assign(in your case 1. I'm hitting 1).

Step 5 :

Click OK.

Step 6 :

Click Save in bottom-right corner.

Try hitting Super+1.

Go to Step 1 : and do this for all commands you got earlier in 1.0 to bind to Super+2, 3, 4 .