Hi all,

after a recent update amarok has been upgraded to 2.2.0. I've lost my
shortcuts (really don't know why) but now, when I try to set them
again, I can't.
I' ve 3 tabs in shortcut options window: Shortcut, Alternate and Global.

I first confgiure Shortcut to Custom -> None, and then I move to Global
and try to set a shortcut like "WinKey+V", i.e., but it goes to none
just after setting it... I can't also select "default" option, which
is set as my previous shortcuts settings (?¿)....


I do use XFCE-4 and I've checked that no other global shortcuts are
defined.

I'm on gentoo, if it's important...

Anyone faced this problem before?

TIA,
Arnau

pelacables wrote:after a recent update amarok has been upgraded to 2.2.0. I've lost my
shortcuts (really don't know why) but now, when I try to set them
again, I can't.
I' ve 3 tabs in shortcut options window: Shortcut, Alternate and Global.

I first confgiure Shortcut to Custom -> None, and then I move to Global
and try to set a shortcut like "WinKey+V", i.e., but it goes to none
just after setting it... I can't also select "default" option, which
is set as my previous shortcuts settings (?¿)....


I do use XFCE-4 and I've checked that no other global shortcuts are
defined.

I'm on gentoo, if it's important...

This issue probably has more to do with XFCE than with Gentoo. They way global shortcuts work is partly dependent on the desktop you use.

E.g. KDE's and GNOME's systems are not fully compatible. That's not nice for the user, but we can't change it easily. Anyway, I'm not an expert on global shortcuts, you could do some googling.

Hi markey,

firs of all, thanks for your reply.

I also thought that, but it could have more sense if I could be able to configure shortcut but then it does not work... meaning that amarok is doing its job, but XFCE is blocking it in some way. But, as I cannot configure any global shortcut, seems more amarok related.

Going to ask to XFCE list anyway.

Cheers,
Arnau

Hi!

ok, I checked with XFCE and seems that global shortcuts are not interfering with amarok's ones...

I've removed all .kde/*amarok* stuff, but every time I restart amarok, and try to configure global shortcuts:

1.-) I cannot select "Default", so I always have Custom->None (seems amarok related)

2.-) If I try to change to whatever shortcut (Ctrl+o, Alt-A i.e) i resets inmediatly... so seems amarok related too.

I tried to launch amarok --debug but I see no error/warning message.


Any idea?

Cheers,
Arnau

Hm, since Global Shortcuts are defined in KDE, not in Amarok, this would be a KDE problem.
FWIW, Gnome and KDE global shortcuts don't go together well, since those don't work in the same way, I don't know which system is used in XFCE, but I bet this is an incompatibility with the KDE global shortcuts. But Markey already told you so...

Ok.

It has worked fine until I upgraded amarok.
I cannot set any custom global shortcut (I don't mean it works, I mean I cannot set it)
I have my preivous custom global shortcut as "default" option in amarok (obviously imported from somewhwre),
I cannot chose between default/Custom options in global shotcut section,

but seems that it's a matter between kde/gnome. I don't know much about this, but if you told so, I belive it .


thanks to both for your replies.

Cheers,
Arnau

Uops, I forgot,

If I'm able to solve it, I'll upgrade this issue.

Cheers,
Arnau

I am a fellow Gentoo and XFCE user who was experiencing the same issue. The problem it seems is that Amarok 2 now requires the KDE Global Shortcut Daemon for global shortcuts to work. This package is not listed as a dependency of Amarok and will only be installed by default in a Gentoo environment if you emerge one of the kde-meta packages.

The fix is simply to emerge the shortcut service:

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emerge kglobalaccel

..and then restart Amarok.

@JPZ: kglobalaccel is part of KDE Runtime, and is a dependency for all KDE applications ( even if they are not part of Main KDE ). Please ask the Gentoo maintainers of KDE to ensure that all components of KDE Runtime are always installed if a KDE application has been installed. Anything that requries KDELibs requires KDERuntime ( of which kglobalaccel is a component )

Great!!!

that worked!
Thanks!