Hi all

Just installed Kubuntu 20.04 after an extended hiatus from Linux (10+ years). Loving it so far.

Found a weird issue with application shortcuts though. I've created a new application that I've put in the KDE Menu Editor. I can go through the launcher and launch it just fine. However, the shortcut I've assigned to it doesn't work. The shortcut that is assigned by default to Dolphin (Meta-E) does work. If I use the new shortcut I'm trying to use (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-S) on Dolphin, this launches fine, however when I try to move that shortcut back to my application, nothing happens. Yet again, I can open it from the application menu just fine.

Have rebooted and the problem persists. I can see that the Application Launcher Global Shortcut exists in System Settings...Workspace...Global Shortcuts... how do I diagnose this further?

Anyone got an ideas?

TIA

Just so I understand it correctly: You did assign an already taken shortcut from the global shortcuts to your own application? Hm, why not use a new shortcut, not already in use?

Mamarok wrote:Just so I understand it correctly: You did assign an already taken shortcut from the global shortcuts to your own application? Hm, why not use a new shortcut, not already in use?

No, sorry, maybe I'll explain it a bit better...

t1:
* Alt-Ctrl-Shift-S (unused key combo) assigned to my own app = not working (but can open app from KDE Menu with no issues by clicking it)
* Meta-E assigned to Dolphin = working (this is the default shortcut that Dolphin is assigned in KDE)

t2:
* Remove Meta-E from Dolphin and assign to my own app = not working (my app won't launch)
* Remove Alt-Ctrl-Shift-S from my own app, assign to Dolphin = working (Dolphin launches with this custom key sequence)

t3:
* Put Alt-Ctrl-Shift-S back on my app = still not working (my app won't launch)
* Put Meta-E back on Dophin = working (Dolphin continues launching)

Basically: My app won't launch with the custom key combo. Not only that, any other app I assign custom key combos does not work. ONLY the handful that came with assigned shortcut keys with Kubuntu KDE work (e.g. Emoji Selector) - I can change existing apps' shortcuts and the new shortcuts work fine. Any apps that don't already have shortcuts assigned, no matter what I do, they will not launch from a shortcut when I assign them.

Hope this makes sense. Where do I look/trace/etc to see why KDE isn't registering these shortcuts against these apps?

See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=417495 and https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419297 (it's not yet sure if the bug is in kmenuedit or in the hotkeys utility).

Kubuntu 20.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.68.0
Qt Version: 5.12.8

Following the suggestions in this comment on the related issue, I did the following:

1. Renamed ~/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc, then logged out of the Plasma session and logged back in. This caused a new ~/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc to be created. However, System Settings > Shortcuts > Global Shortcuts still showed the Application Launcher shortcuts I had set in KMenuEdit, and they still didn't work.
2. Removed from System Settings > Shortcuts > Global Shortcuts all the Application Launcher shortcuts I had set in KMenuEdit, then logged out and logged back in.

New shortcuts set for launchers in KMenuEdit now work as expected.

It may be possible to fix this without recreating ~/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc and just removing the global shortcuts that don't work from System Settings > Shortcuts > Global Shortcuts, then logging out, logging back in and setting the launcher shortcuts anew.

It may be possible to fix this without recreating ~/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc and just removing the global shortcuts that don't work from System Settings > Shortcuts > Global Shortcuts, then logging out, logging back in and setting the launcher shortcuts anew.

Thank you, this worked!
I'm on Plasma 5..22.4