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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 : ...