Hi, Try as I might, I can't get any of the keyboard shortcuts to work that I program into the "keyboard shortcuts" preferences Gnome GUI tool. I can do something like change the print screen shortcut to also require the shift key to be pressed, but if I wanted to add a shortcut for something to open the web browser, for instance, nothing happens. Same goes for things like volume controls, log out, etc. Is there some trick to this? I can see it accepting the keys, so the keyboard does actually do something when I press the keys I've picked (extra function keys on a fancy keyboard). For example, I've tried the following, ineffectually: Launch help browser <Shift><Control>w (original setting, but does nothing) Log out 0xdf (does nothing) Lock screen <Control>Break (does nothing) Search 0xe5 (does nothing) E-mail 0xec (does nothing) Launch web browser 0xb2 (does nothing) ... panel run app ... <Alt>F2 (this works) Show panel menu <Alt>F1 (this works) Take screenshot <Shift>Print (this works) Run a terminal 0xeb (does nothing) and so on... Trying common keyboard keys, like control with F keys doesn't work, for the above ones I've tried the extra special keys, either. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.