MIE: Creating a Keyboard Shortcut for the Terminal

Thu, 02/26/2009 - 00:28 — rg
FAIL (the browser should render some flash content, not this).

One of the things that striked me when first reading about the Mobile Internet Experience software was that the Linux command line interface is disabled on the HP Mini 1000 Mi. I could not really imagine what was meant by disabled, until I had the chance to check out the Mini Mi myself.

To start a program you are supposed to click on the Start New Program button on the home screen and than choose the application you want to run from a tabbed interface. You won't find a terminal emulator on any of the tabs, which does not mean that you cannot launch a terminal window.

One simple method is to hit ALT+F2 and than enter xterm or gnome-terminal and click on Run to launch a terminal. An alternative method is to add a keyboard shortcut for launching a terminal window, as demonstrated in this screencast.

To create a keyboard shortcut for the GNOME terminal emulator click on Settings on the start screen of Mobile Internet Experience, than click on the Advanced tab, and click on the Keyboard Shortcut button. In the keyboard shortcut settings window scroll down to the entry Run a Terminal click on this entry and enter your preferred key combination. That's it. Now you can launch a terminal via the keyboard shortcut you just entered.

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Sun, 04/26/2009 - 23:57 — jL (not verified)

So... how did u make that

So... how did u make that screencast???

Mon, 04/27/2009 - 20:26 — rg

I recorded the video on the

I recorded the video on the HP Mini using recordMyDesktop with audio turned off, and then recorded the audio on my desktop and merged audio and video files using ffmpeg.

Mon, 09/07/2009 - 05:33 — Una distro sin consola, terminal o línea de comandos | LXA! (not verified)

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Mon, 09/21/2009 - 12:34 — Anonymous (not verified)

It is also possible to add

It is also possible to add gnome-terminal and other programs to the start menu
by editing the file /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu. For example, you can add
totem movie player you don't like the HP media software, or any other gnome application.
Also, you can add a "root terminal" to the setting->advanced menu from one of the
other customization/settings options in the settings-advanced menu.

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