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Starting terminal with shortcut key combination

How can the shortcut keys be defined that would open up a terminal window? When using a kvm switch, the mouse sometimes does not work, but the keyboard does, and by opening up a terminal window using a shortcut key combination, the mouse can be restarted by entering the predefined mouserestart alias.

Operating system is FreeBSD by the way.

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NAME
roxterm - terminal emulator SYNOPSIS
roxterm [-? | --help] [--help-all] [--help-gtk] [-u | --usage] [--geometry=GEOM] [--appdir=DIR] [--profile=PROFILE | -p PROFILE] [--colour-scheme=SCHEME | --color-scheme=SCHEME | -c SCHEME] [--shortcut-scheme=SCHEME | -s SCHEME] [--separate] [--replace] [--fork] [--directory=DIR | -d DIR] [--show-menubar] [--hide-menubar] [--fullscreen-f] [--disable-sm] [--tab] [--zoom=ZOOM | -z ZOOM] [--title=TITLE | -T TITLE] [--tab-name=NAME | -n NAME] [--role=ROLE] [--execute COMMAND | -e COMMAND] DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the roxterm command. roxterm is a terminal emulator. OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. -? --help Show description of options. --help-all Show all options. --help-gtk Show all GTK+ options. --usage Show summary of usage. -d DIRECTORY --directory=DIRECTORY Run shell/command in DIRECTORY. --geometry=GEOMETRY Set size and/or position of terminal according to X geometry specification. --appdir=DIR Application directory when run as a ROX app. --show-menubar --hide-menubar Whether to show or hide the menubar, overriding the profile. The default is to show it. --fullscreen -f Make initial terminal window take up the whole screen with no window furniture. --disable-sm Disable session management. --tab If possible open the new terminal in an existing window rather than open a new window. If used in conjunction with -T/--title the tab will be placed in an existing window with the same title template if one exists. This option overrides --zoom and --fullscreen. --zoom=ZOOM -z ZOOM Scale terminal's font by a factor of ZOOM (1.0 is normal size). -p PROFILE --profile=PROFILE Use the named profile. -c SCHEME --colour-scheme=SCHEME --color-scheme=SCHEME Use the named colour scheme. -s SCHEME --shortcut-scheme=SCHEME Use the named keyboard shortcut scheme. --title=TITLE -T TITLE Set window title template. May include "%s" which is substituted with the full contents of the tab's label. --tab-name=NAME -n NAME Set tab name as displayed in its label. May include "%s" which is substituted with the window title string set by the terminal. --separate Use a separate process for this terminal. --fork Always fork into the background. Usually the first instance stays in the foreground and subsequent invocations return once they have asked the master instance to handle their command. This option causes the master instance to fork itself into the background; the foreground process returns once the master is ready to handle further commands. --replace Replace any existing instance as ROXTerm D-BUS service provider. --role=ROLE Sets the X window system "role" hint for the window being created. -e --execute Execute remainder of command line inside the terminal. Must be the final option. SEE ALSO
The program is documented fully by the HTML file file://${HTMLDIR}/en/index.html. AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Tony Houghton h@realh.co.uk. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. AUTHOR
Tony Houghton Developer COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2005-2011 Tony Houghton ROXTerm 2.6.5 November 19, 2011 ROXTERM(1)