where do I put a command to setup keyboard shortcuts for Gnome 3

[Antonio Olivares]

Dear folks,

I am running Gnome 3 and want to setup a special keyboard mapping to be able to get special keys/shortcuts see http://sob.apotheon.org/?p=814 for special character discussion.

ñ For students/parents with last names Peña, or Treviño as examples, also for accents like José

The command

setxkbmap -option compose:ralt

does the job and instead of placing it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local or /etc/rc.local or other older solution.  If I need to put in ~/.bashrc, ~/.xinitrc will it start and allow me to input the special characters?

I have figured it out for (FreeBSD and Slackware[XFCE desktop]) using startx and automatic login using tricks.  Have not figured it out for Fedora with gnome-shell or Gnome 3 :(

Where will it work? (~/.xinitrc), (~/.bashrc), (~/.config/autostart),  using regular startup(level 5 with systemd)?

Thanks to the other suggestions I got gkrellm to run at startup using gkrellm.desktop in ~/.config/autostart/, do I need something similar.  I want to have this available so my students can compose the special characters and I don't have to type the command everytime :(

This way they can type their correspondance to their spanish professors at the community college.  They want to use alt+164, but I got advice to use the compose key + ~ => ñ

Thanks in Advance,

Antonio

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Wed, 4/27/11, Antonio Olivares  wrote:
> From: Antonio Olivares 
> Subject: where do I put a command to setup keyboard shortcuts for Gnome 3
> To: "fedora-test-list" 
> Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 7:29 PM
> Dear folks,
>
> I am running Gnome 3 and want to setup a special keyboard
> mapping to be able to get special keys/shortcuts see http://sob.apotheon.org/?p=814 for special character
> discussion.
>
> ñ For students/parents with last names Peña, or Treviño
> as examples, also for accents like José
>
> The command
>
> setxkbmap -option compose:ralt
>
> does the job and instead of placing it in
> /etc/rc.d/rc.local or /etc/rc.local or other older
> solution.  If I need to put in ~/.bashrc, ~/.xinitrc
> will it start and allow me to input the special
> characters?
>
> I have figured it out for (FreeBSD and Slackware[XFCE
> desktop]) using startx and automatic login using
> tricks.  Have not figured it out for Fedora with
> gnome-shell or Gnome 3 :(
>
> Where will it work? (~/.xinitrc), (~/.bashrc),
> (~/.config/autostart),  using regular startup(level 5
> with systemd)?
>
> Thanks to the other suggestions I got gkrellm to run at
> startup using gkrellm.desktop in ~/.config/autostart/, do I
> need something similar.  I want to have this available
> so my students can compose the special characters and I
> don't have to type the command everytime :(
>
> This way they can type their correspondance to their
> spanish professors at the community college.  They want
> to use alt+164, but I got advice to use the compose key + ~
> => ñ
>
> Thanks in Advance,
> Antonio

I have tried creating a file in 
userdirectory
~/.xinitrc with the command, but it does not work.

Any suggestions out there?  Works with KDE/XFCE/ other desktops out there? a universal solution not necessarily for Gnome 3?

Thanks,

Antonio