Hi, I've wasted to much time trying to get a simple keyboard shortcut working.

From terminal I can successfully run wakeonlan <mac address>

I've tried several times to write this command as a keyboard shortcut.

Applications>System Tools>System settings > Keyboard

Please put me out of my misery.............

Hi,

Should be able to do this, when you put in the command to run on the keyboard shortcut page put:

/bin/bash wakeonlan <mac address>

-or-

create a bash script to execute like:

#!/bin/bash
wakeonlan <mac address>

The mark the script as executable with
chmod +x <script name>

and link the keyboard shortcut to the script

Thanks for the ideas but I'm still struggling.............

In the Name box I've put a meaningful name and in the command box I've tried everything I can think of.

Could somebody please be VERY prescriptive and suggest the full precise code with out using a script...

I really am struggling.

I can't tell you how to create a keyboard shortcut in Ubuntu becuase I don't use it but the precise command it needs to run is:For example:

Thanks 273.......

I can run wakeonlan no problem from terminal that has NEVER been a problem.

What I want to do is run it from a keyboard shortcut.....

BUT I can't get it to work.

All the commands I've tried in the Applications>System Tools>System settings > Keyboard > Command box won't work for me.

That is the command I need help with.

I just did this on a Ubuntu VM, the steps I took were:
Hit the button on the top right (start menu type button, whatever they call it).
Typed "keyboard".
Selected the "Keyboard" option shown.
In the "Keyboard" application selected "Custom Shortcuts".
Clicked the "+" symbol to add a shortcut.
Called it "wake" and added the command "/usr/bin/wakeonlan 00:00:49:d0:30:09" to it.
With "wake" listed I clicked on the word "Disabled".
Hit Ctrl+X to set that as the shortcut (for testing purposes, select whatever it is you want).
Closed the keyboard application, then re-opened it to make sure changes had stayed.
Closed the keyboard application again.
Hit Ctrl+X and verified it sent the magic packet using an app called "Wake On LAN Monitor" on my iPad.

The command that you give for any shortcut is exactly the same as you would enter on the command line but should have the whole path to be sure it is running the right thing.

Hi 273,
Thanks very much for going to the efforts you have.
I've really hit a brick wall with this one, I've followed your steps to the letter with my mac address.
But still it does not work for me.
I'm going to give up on this one and live with wakeonlan direct from a terminal or from my smart phone.
I really can't take this any more it is so FRUSTRATING!!!

I'm going to leave this unsolved for a few more weeks.

Open question to anyone else who has taken the time to read this thread, Could it be something to do with the fact that wakeonlan is a perl script?

I am interested too -- I use Wake On LAN to power on my desktop regularly so I like to know it works.