Hey everyone, new guy here;

I've been hooked on Linux lately, and I have a project I'd like to build, but it would require creating hotkeys/keyboard shortcuts. Looking at programs like nano or calcurse, it's obvious this is possible, but I haven't been able to find any kind of tutorial or other documentation explaining how. The little bits I've found are more for desktop environments like KDE, and even those are few and far between. So any info on the subject would be awesome! Thanks in advance.

PS: On a different note, is there some big website I'm missing? Like when developing Windows apps I can always to to MSDN for more info; does anything similar exist for Linux?