for the past 5 years i have used guake terminal in gnome mapped to the conveniently useless Menu key between the right alt and ctrl keys. suddlenly i find myself forced to use kde due to my fancy new radeon 290x graphics card. in most ways this is not a problem, except that I CAN'T SET YAKUAKE HOTKEYS TO MENU.

in fact i cannot set any hotkey to menu, because when i press Menu to set it in the KUI it brings up the context menu. i initially figured it was plasma causing the issue, but even in i3wm the problem remains.

this is worse than any curse imaginable, a fate worse than death. i NEED THIS HOTKEY. CAN ANYONE HELP ME!?


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Kubuntu 14.04
KDE 4.1


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i've tried to upgrade to KDE 4.9 using kubuntu backports repo, but all signs still point to 4.1, this is confusing to me

You don't. Just filed https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353916

You may try to edit ~/.kde/share/config/kglobalshortcutsrc, find the desired yakuake action and set "Menu" as shortcut. Save, log out and in and see whether it works (should, since kglobalaccel does not allow configured keys to pass, but I don't know whether "Menu" will be the correct string)

eureka! just found a solution using

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xmodmap -e "keycode 135 = F13"

F13 of course is not a real key I have, so this is perfect. it would seem this bug has been around for at least 7 years now, it's sort of mind blowing to me that it's never been fixed. is this still an issue in latest KDE?

oldest bug i've found: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165542
solution found at: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301905

For what it's worth, I use the workaround suggested by luebking. You probably have to log out before you edit ~/.kde/share/config/kglobalshortcutsrc (otherwise your changes will be overridden).

--- Comment #1 from Hans Chen ---
Duplicate of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165542

LOL - all those outreach and summer of whatnot programs and we didn't manage to get that one fixed in a decade?
I'll provide a patch tonight. From a quick look, it seems the Menu key is invalidly treated as a modifier.

luebking wrote:LOL - all those outreach and summer of whatnot programs and we didn't manage to get that one fixed in a decade?
I'll provide a patch tonight. From a quick look, it seems the Menu key is invalidly treated as a modifier.

You're awesome luebking!

https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kxmlgui.git ... ef68f7546c