KDE4 Custom Keycuts

[exwintech]

Once again, this might just be because I haven't been using KDE4.x for several years, so can't find things.

What I wanted was the old Khotkeys - to assign a key combo to opening an application. That used to be in KDE Control Centre, which has been replaced by the convoluted thousands of trendoids under System Settings. After looking through gazillions of things there for most of a morning, I did a Search on this Forum - no result, or I didn't ask in KDE4-speak...

So Googled, and found under "keycuts", a Mandriva reference. If you change what used to be the conventional Kmenu to "Appplication Launcher", you get "Search" - which has vanished from what now isn't Kmenu.

Type in 'khotkeys' - and you get "Custom Shortcuts - KDE Control Module" - which - unless it's called something else - Spasms or Gidgits or such - isn't 'findable' in System Settings.

The settable keycuts are under the KmenuEdit line - see Pic.

I have been able to set 3 - Alt + A = Avidemux, Alt + F = Firefox, and Alt + X = Liberty-Office.

Then I wanted to fast-open ShowFoto. Yes, I'm aware that it no longer has a button in Konqueror, to run inside Konky with superb functions - but it installs as a Plugin for Digikam. Even so it still has an entry in PCmenu (formerly Kmenu apparently now called ClassicMenu, if not named that) - and click-opens by itself from there.

However, when I try to set Alt + S = ShowFoto for it - no dice - all it does is reset the last keycut - in this case, Alt + X = LibertyOffice - to Alt + S.

I thought this might be because ShowFoto under KDE4.x is a plugin for Digikam - though when selected in the Custom Shortcuts - KDE Control Module - it does show its string in the Field - see Pic.

So I tried another of the dozen or so keycuts I used to have in KDE3.5 - Kdenlive as Alt + K = Kdenlive.

This does the same thing - that is - Alt + K then opens LibertyOffice.

Can KDE4.x only remember / store 3 Custom Keycuts? If that is a default - is there a setting to reset the limit to 10 or 12?

To make "Custom Shortcuts - KDE Control Module" - easier to open - can I add "Search" back to PC/Kmenu 'Classic' - so I don't need to change that to 'Applications Launch' Menu to be able to type "khotkeys" into Search...  Or - can the Search box be opened from Terminal (or the GUI "Custom Shortcuts", for that matter)...?

- Actually, the ShowFoto 'thing' would be solved if there was a way to add-back ShowFoto to Konqueror (it used to have ShowFoto integrated as a Button on the bar, with most excellent functions for sorting particularly the hundreds of pix from camera downloads - view at selected window size, drag-and-copy out selecteds, so on.) This might not be possible in the now reduced-functions Konky - but as ShowFoto is a plugin with Digikam - is there a way to configure it as a plugin for Konky?


By exwintech at 2012-02-04

Regards, Dave.

[rubentje1991]

Did you added an action again?
=> I don't see any entry for LibreOffice in the screenshot?

Maybe you edited the "new action" (which was LibreOffice, but probably not changed the name), which thus wasn't a "new" action...?
(just some thinking from my side  )

[exwintech]

Rubentje1991 - Ah..., it doesn't have its own list, like previous KDE versions... Where you just enable a keycut to any app or utility on the list. So - to create another keycut entry on this list in the pic - I need to do an extra step and add an "action" - so it then saves it as a new entry. Okay - shall try that, thank-you...!

I'll go back to the Mandriva thing on KDE4.x - maybe the steps are shown in that... Actually - don't recall - but that might be how I got the first entries in.... 

Regards, Dave.

[rubentje1991]

Success 

[Just18]

KDE CC

Common Appearance & Behaviour - Shortcuts and Gestures

Right click on KmenuEdit  - New - Global Shortcut - Kmenu Entry

Type in the Name for the new action where highlighted. If you make a mistake, right click - Edit and correct it.

Then (with the new Kmenu Entry highlighted) select the Trigger tab to the right, click on the Shortcut button, and hit the keys you want to use for the trigger

Then under Action tab browse to find the Menu Entry you want to launch.

Apply at the bottom and all is done.

[exwintech]

Just18 - Step by step much appreciated - thanks!

Regards, Dave.