Terminal shortcut nixOS (Ctrl+Alt+T)

This is a guide to allow you to open a Gnome terminal in NixOS via a shortcut (the default one in ubuntu)

First add this config to your configuration.nix :

programs.dconf = {
enable = true;
profiles.user.databases = [
    {
    settings = {
        "org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/media-keys" = {
            custom-keybindings = [
                "/org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/media-keys/custom-keybindings/custom0/"
            ];
        };

        "org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/media-keys/custom-keybindings/custom0" = {
            binding = "<Ctrl><Alt>t";
            command = "kgx";
            name = "GNOME Console";
        };
    };
    lockAll = true;
    }
];
};

Then rebuild nixOS via :

sudo nixos-rebuild switch

And then restart your computer, you’re good to go !

note : you can alway rollback via

sudo nixos-rebuild switch --rollback

sources

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/what-command-to-open-the-terminal/36148 https://gitlab.com/engmark/root/-/merge_requests/446/diffs

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