The purpose of Xhotkeys is to provide a simple and easy configurable hotkey launcher for the X-Window System. It should work on all desktops (Gnome, KDE, Xfce, ...) available for the operating system GNU/Linux. Configuration files can be modified manually or using a graphical GTK+ configurator.
The source code and binary packages for Debian (so, also Ubuntu) are available.
Xhotkeys is free software.