Alright, there are approximately five billion results on google for something along the lines of "Linux Keyboard shortcut launch" but after spending hours looking through them I found nothing truly relevant. I will assume that I simply don't know how to search Google and move on to my question.

I run KDE on Fedora Core.
I want to launch an application when I hit a media key on my keyboard (these have already been properly mapped and whatnot). However, I do not want to do so though the KDE panel's "add shortcut" feature because if I run it in KDE at all and not a shell or terminal, it loads a little window that won't friggin go away for five minutes.

What am I trying to load you ask? A small application I wrote that manipulates XMMS then exits.

Alright, can anyone help? Is there a way to map something like that directly into X so X does it for me and KDE doesn't go crazy? Or even something inside Fedora itself?

And a second question.. is there a way to manipulate individual shortcut keys for a particular program without using a tool within that program itself? For example, Firefox. I hate the way the keys are setup, but it provides no way to change them that I know of. I saw some sites hinting at such an ability, but with no real way of doing it that I could see.

You can create a menu entry for it and use that, to add a hotkey for the program.

Or you can use the KHotKeys program in the control center. (Under Regional & Accessability ) Select Add new action, set the type to Keyboatd shortcut -> command/URL (simple)

Enter the shortcut, and the command and that should work as well.

Hi there Thray! Welcome mate!

For the shortcut thing, you can use a third part program. I'd recommend xbindkeys:

http://hocwp.free.fr/xbindkeys/xbindkeys.html

it works quite well and it comes with some .config files examples for launching applications. Another one very popular is blackbox' bbkeys:

http://bbkeys.sourceforge.net/

It should work with any desktop manager, though, it's more designed for the blackbox.

About Mozilla, I don't know. You could always check the code and change the keys then compile it as you please, but that's something I cannot do yet. I'm Megaman X, not the amazing Spider lol.

Good luck!

Oddly enough, I see no Add Action. I looked for that for a while when I first loaded KDE,a assuming there must be one, but alas. Maybe an old version of KDE or maybe one of the edits made to KDE by Fedora.. I hear there are some.

Mega Man: Thanks! I'm trying XBindKeys right now (have to install some of its dependencies first, and I'm too impatient to wait for all that to finish to post again. I'll post again when I know how it works.)
As for Firefox.. yeah. Actually, I can't imagine changing key binds to be TOO difficult, just very very tedious, so I was hoping to find an alternative...

Recieved compile-time error that it couldn't find rpl_malloc, used several times within 'keys.c'
Damn.