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anath0r
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No global shortcuts in KDE

Thu Jan 21, 2010 5:37 pm
After upgrading Amarok, i dont know the dependency beetwen these two facts, in my kde 4.3.4 all global shortcuts have disappeared!
alt+tab, ctrl+tab, plasma shortcuts such as F10, everything stopped working!
only local shortcuts works, in text editors or so..

when i go to the system config -> global shortcuts, then everywhere i look are empty inputs and neither can i set up any custom value for shortcuts nor default value, eg: in 'show dashboard' (plasma shortcuts) i see ctrl+F12 but i cant toogle it

and there's no any solution or such problem in the internet
thats strange!

cheers,
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Re: No global shortcuts in KDE

Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:10 pm
Can you please ensure that kglobalacceld is installed and operational?


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Re: No global shortcuts in KDE

Fri Jan 22, 2010 4:53 pm
seems its not working:
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pawel@mistral:/usr/share/sip/PyKDE4$ locate kglobalaccel
/usr/include/kglobalaccel.h
/usr/share/sip/PyKDE4/kdeui/kglobalaccel.sip
pawel@mistral:/usr/share/sip/PyKDE4$ ps ax | grep kglobal
 4523 pts/1    S+     0:00 grep kglobal


BUT, today my KDE has crushed, and black screen with just mouse cursor appeared without any error. After reset ctrl+alt+backspace (yes it worked ;) my KDE looks like this http://i46.tinypic.com/pln4k.png

(menubar on the left is my default setting)
and before that crash both alt+F2, and yakuake's F12 worked, and know it isnt
right click on desktop returns with nothing

what should i do? rebuild KDE?
ive just recalled i upgraded kdelibs in order to upgrade amarok, but it worked all 3 days.

kde 4.3.4
kdelibs ver. 4.2.4
kernel 2.6.29.6-smp
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Re: No global shortcuts in KDE

Sat Jan 23, 2010 12:15 am
Oh dear.

Please run the following outside KDE.

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rm -rf /var/tmp/kdecache-$(id -un)/*
rm -rf /tmp/kde-$(id -un)/*
rm -rf /tmp/ksocket-$(id -un)/*
rm -rf $(kde4-config --localprefix)/share/apps/plasma
rm -f $(kde4-config --localprefix)/share/config/plasma*


You should have the following files installed for KGlobalAccel to be correctly installed.

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/opt/trunk-kde/kde/lib/libkdeinit4_kglobalaccel.so
/usr/share/apps/kglobalaccel
/usr/share/apps/kglobalaccel/kglobalaccel.notifyrc
/usr/share/kde4/services/kglobalaccel.desktop
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.kde.kglobalaccel.Component.xml
/usr/include/kglobalaccel.h
/usr/bin/kglobalaccel


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