Keyboard shortcut not working in Linux about vim-anywhere HOT 11 OPEN

For newer releases (I'm using 15.10) that use dconf instead of gconf:

• Go to All Settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Custom Shortcuts.
• Add custom keyboard shortcut:
  • Name: vim-anywhere
  • Command: /home/username/.vim-anywhere/bin/run
  • select the new shortcut and press ctrl+alt+v

To see these settings, open dconf editor and navigate to org -> gnome -> settings-daemon -> plugins -> media-keys -> custom-keybindings -> custom0 or in terminal:

dconf read /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/media-keys/custom-keybindings/custom0/name
dconf read /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/media-keys/custom-keybindings/custom0/binding
dconf read /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/media-keys/custom-keybindings/custom0/command

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This worked for me (ubuntu 16.04) after adding the entry via Go to All Settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Custom Shortcuts. (couldn't get it to actually assign the key map):
dconf write /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/media-keys/custom-keybindings/custom0/binding "'<Ctrl><Alt>v'"

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Hey, sorry for the trouble.

What was the output of the installer? It should fail the install if you are missing any dependency. You are using Gnome right? I know you said Ubuntu, but just double checking.

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Hi, @cknadler!

According the installer everything is installed and I already had Gnome and gVim installed.

Apparently everything is alright; vim-anywhere simply doesn't work... =(

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Thats pretty strange. By nothing happens, I'm assuming you mean that gVim doesn't show up? What happens if you run the script directly?

$ ~/.vim-anywhere/bin/run -v # this will run what the shortcut would run with verbose output

If it still doesn't show up, paste me the output of that script.

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I had the same problem, but manually setting the key-binding resolved it for me. After a little testing though, I think gconftool isn't setting key-bindings even if it is installed, I'm on Linux Mint.

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I had the same problem on Ubuntu 13.10.
Here is what I've got:

• vim-anywhere is properly configured, and gconftool --get /desktop/gnome/keybindings/vim-anywhere/binding properly returns <CTRL><ALT>v.
• Newer versions of Ubuntu seem to use dconf rather than gconf.
• setting keyboard shortcut for ~/.vim-anywhere/bin/run manually (from All Settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Custom Shortcuts) and rebooting (essentially, logging out and in) solves the issue.

After setting shortcut manually, in my environment,
dconf list /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/media-keys/custom-keybindings/custom0 shows 'binding', 'command' and 'name', where settings are stored.
dconf read /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/media-keys/custom-keybindings/custom0/command shows '/home/(my_user_name)/.vim-anywhere/bin/run'.

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We are aware that newer versions of gnome don't use gconf anymore. The current solution is to use gconftool if it is installed and use gsettings (dconf) as a fallback to set the shortcut. The real issue here is that people obviously have both gconf and dconf installed on their systems. We need a better solution to detect if a user has dconf as their main settings daemon vs gconf.

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@pyrated good point. We will have to look at an alternate way to detect wether to use gconftool or gsettings. Clearly the current solution isn't working in all cases.

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Incidentally, I was running into (what looked like) this problem with Ubuntu 14.04 and Gnome 3.10.4. ctrl + alt + v didn't launch gvim. But setting the shortcut in Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Custom Shortcuts didn't resolve it.

I found that using the full path to vim-anywhere in Custom Shortcuts, e.g. /home/user/.vim-anywhere/bin/run instead of ~/.vim-anywhere/bin/run, worked as expected. The shortcut had been created successfully, but for some reason tilde expansion wasn't happening.

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[Yes, I know that the following is neither a code issue nor Linux. Please feel free to add it to the FAQ or README or something; just pls don't merely delete it. Thx. I've put it here because, when I was looking for guidance, this is where I ended up. And I'm sharing the resolution in case anyone else hits it in the future.]

FYI, the keyboard shortcut didn't work for on MacOS Big Sur until I restarted my machine.

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