Custom shortcut

I'm looking for a method of adding a custom shortcut in Fedora (17). /g/ was no help, and seemed to think I don't know how to use google, but the only things I have managed to find is 1) A method of doing it for commands that are already extant, 2) A method of doing it on Ubuntu, or 3) http://pnmyers.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/fedora-17-no-more-launch-terminal.html

Unfortunately, I have absolutely no idea what the code in 3 means, or what to do with it. All I'm trying to do is have something like ctrl + t to open terminal, ctrl + f to open firefox, etc.

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if you open a terminal and type 'gno' and the 'tab' key, for auto complete, you should see a list of programs installed in the interesting directories that begin with 'gno', same with 'xf', 'kde' and so on, since window managers usually install little binaries that facilitate your use through a different name, like a default way of calling the program set as default in that wm.