I’ve been looking for this one FOREVER. Love how easy it is to migrate home dirs and config files to a new Mint installation, but one of the things that I could never get right was moving the custom keyboard shortcuts. They just didn’t seem to live in any plaintext configuration files.
I suppose I wasn’t searching for the right things.
Finally found it on this page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/cinnamon.
Anyway, here’s how to export the keybindings:
Install dconf-cli first
sudo apt-get install dconf-cli
Linux Mint 17
dconf dump /org/cinnamon/keybindings/ > dconf-settings.conf
Linux Mint 18/19/20
dconf dump /org/cinnamon/desktop/keybindings/ > dconf-settings.conf
And to import:
Linux Mint 17
dconf load /org/cinnamon/keybindings/ < dconf-settings.conf
Linux Mint 18/19/20
dconf load /org/cinnamon/desktop/keybindings/ < dconf-settings.conf
And finally to export from Linux Mint 17 and import into Linux Mint 17.x:
Export, with the sed conversion, on Mint 17:
dconf dump /org/cinnamon/keybindings/ | sed 's/binding=\(.*\)$/binding=\[\1\]/' > dconf-settings-for-mint.conf
And then import on:
Linux Mint 18/19/20
dconf load /org/cinnamon/desktop/keybindings/ < dconf-settings-for-mint.conf