i have had situations were a program has freezed up and took up the desktop space so i couldn't right click to open a termianl to kill the process and the menu button was sluggish for me to navagite to load the termal so i want to map it to a button on the keyboard for when something like that happens. I have used xev to find out the keycode of the button i want to use. (87) but not sure where to go from there. I figure i have to modfiy some config. I am using Gnone in Fedora Core 2 and the terminal is GNOME Terminal 2.6.0. thanks for any help

Hitting Ctrl-Alt-F1 will take you to a virtual terminal where you can login with your user name and password and kill any process hanging up your system. To get back to your gui, hit Alt-F7 or Ctrl-Alt-F7.

thanks i'll keep that in mind next time it happens. But i also wanted to know to get experience mapping keys cuz i was curious how to do so in linux. The terminal just seemed like a logical program to map cuz i use it the most and it would be helpful for those situations i described.