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Adding a keyboard shortcut for System Monitor in Ubuntu

Being accustomed to Windows, I usually press Ctrl-Shift-Esc to open up the task manager when I want to see system information like memory usage and cpu usage.

I was a bit surprised that the same key combination did nothing in Ubuntu. So I created a keyboard shortcut to open the gnome system monitor.

I am doing these steps in Ubuntu 11.04

1. Open application ‘Keyboard Shortcuts’
2. Click on ‘Add’
3. Enter a name, ‘System Monitor’ in my case, and the command ‘gnome-system-monitor’
4. Click Apply
5. Find ‘System Monitor’ and double click on the Shortcut column.
6. Now press the key combination you want, in my case Ctrl-Shift-Esc
7. Click close

I really like the customizing power of Ubuntu!