Hi,

Can't get application shortcuts to work in KDE 4.

I defined Ctrl+Alt+F to launch Iceweasel as follows: Right-mouse-button click on the "Kickoff Application Launcher", select menu editor, select an application, goto Advanced panel and change the "Current shortcut key".

However, pressing Ctrl+Alt+F does not launch Iceweasel later. Similarly defined shortcuts for other apps also don't appear to work.

Any ideas? Thanks


# uname -a
Linux testbox 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 03:40:32 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux





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On 2011-03-08 06:08, S D wrote:

Hi,

Can't get application shortcuts to work in KDE 4.

I defined Ctrl+Alt+F to launch Iceweasel as follows: Right-mouse-button click on the "Kickoff Application Launcher", select menu editor, select an application, goto Advanced panel and change the "Current shortcut key".

However, pressing Ctrl+Alt+F does not launch Iceweasel later. Similarly defined shortcuts for other apps also don't appear to work.

Any ideas? Thanks


# uname -a
Linux testbox 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 03:40:32 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux






Hi,
did you press Save in KDE Menu Editor after shortcuts input?
I made shortcut Ctrl+Alt+C for KWrite and it works.


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--- On Tue, 3/8/11, godo <goran@dobosevic.com> wrote:

> did you press Save in KDE Menu Editor after shortcuts
> input?
> I made shortcut Ctrl+Alt+C for KWrite and it works.

Yes, I've saved it and the shortcut key stays there if I close and then reopen the menu editor. But the key doesn't work. Strange.









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On 09/03/11 04:29, S D wrote:
> --- On Tue, 3/8/11, godo <goran@dobosevic.com> wrote:
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>> did you press Save in KDE Menu Editor after shortcuts
>> input?
>> I made shortcut Ctrl+Alt+C for KWrite and it works.
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> Yes, I've saved it and the shortcut key stays there if I close and then reopen the menu editor. But the key doesn't work. Strange.
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Have you tried disabling the KWrite shortcut you've configured and
seeing if Ctrl+Alt+C is assigned to something else (already)?

Cheers


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--- On Tue, 3/8/11, Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.productions@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Have you tried disabling the KWrite shortcut you've
> configured and
> seeing if Ctrl+Alt+C is assigned to something else
> (already)?

I've tried different combinations but none of them works. If a shortcut is assigned to something else then the menu editor gives a warning and asks for the confirmation to reassign an existing shortcut. So no, none of the shortcuts I've used were assigned to something else (no warning was given).







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On 09/03/11 10:42, S D wrote:
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> --- On Tue, 3/8/11, Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.productions@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Have you tried disabling the KWrite shortcut you've
>> configured and
>> seeing if Ctrl+Alt+C is assigned to something else
>> (already)?
>
> I've tried different combinations but none of them works. If a shortcut is assigned to something else then the menu editor gives a warning and asks for the confirmation to reassign an existing shortcut. So no, none of the shortcuts I've used were assigned to something else (no warning was given).
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K. Just tried the same thing on an i386 kernel with the same result.
Also tried assigning Alt+Shift+S to the menu editor - no disernable
result....

A quick look shows no kglobalaccel running :-/

.kde/share/config/khotkeysrc exists..... and contains the hotkey
combination I created, sorry but I don't have time to fully investigate
at the moment. A quick search through my mbox for thye Debian-KDE list
shows nothing relevant.

Curiouser and curiouser - I shall have a bit of a dig this evening.


Cheers


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On 08/03/11 16:08, S D wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can't get application shortcuts to work in KDE 4.
>

<snipped>

Just check that the following works for you
(if it does please post as [SOLVED])


$ cp ~/.kde/share/config/khotkeysrc
~/.kde/share/config/khotkeysrc_before_I_had_a_fiddle
$ nano ~/.kde/share/config/khotkeysrc

change line 7 from:-
Enabled=false

to:-
Enabled=true

Save, and test (I found earlier hotkey combinations I'd added had
disappeared)

I tested by creating a menu entry for Kmenueditor under the System
Settings section ('cause it's not in the *(^#@! menu...) and assigned it
a hotkey combination "Meta+Alt+K"
Also created a hotkey combination for Dolphin "Meta+E"

Both now work on my system.

Note: I have done no other testing, and - beware, it's a hack.

Cheers


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--- On Wed, 3/9/11, Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.productions@gmail.com> wrote:

> Just check that the following works for you
> (if it does please post as [SOLVED])
>
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> $ cp ~/.kde/share/config/khotkeysrc
> ~/.kde/share/config/khotkeysrc_before_I_had_a_fiddle
> $ nano ~/.kde/share/config/khotkeysrc
>
> change line 7 from:-
> Enabled=false
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> to:-
> Enabled=true
>
> Save, and test (I found earlier hotkey combinations I'd
> added had
> disappeared)

Yes, it works for me as well. All shortcuts I've defined now work.

Thanks a lot for your help.






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