hello dear fellows

i've recently noticed my ctrl-W shortcut was not working anymore (dolphin, gwenview, firefox...) and this is very ennoying for two reasons :
1/ i am use to it so my semi auto ctrl-W does nothing...
2/ i do not understand why !!!
3/i cannot fix it in a clean way !!

3 : moving ~/.kde to ~/.kde-old and closing/restarting session
solves it, but i have quite a lot of customization to do !!!

i've tried a comparison between .kde-old and newly created .kde
with diff -r but could'nt find/understand what happens ... only uuid's related to ctrl-W shortcuts were different : !!! in khotkeysrc file,

anyways this is related to an update... so what's wrong ?

i run kde 4.6.5 on natty (kubuntu 11.04)

hope someone might help... (already asked on french ubuntu forums)

thanks,

apoG

i 've copied the khotkeyrc file with the newly created one in new ".kde", then pasted it to saved ".kde-old", renamed to ".kde" after removing the "new" one

it is ok but i donot understand why !!!


apoG

you had ctrl+w assigned to some global shortcut - that's all.
It is then oc. not available to other applications.

It's not necessary you did that yourself, some application *might* have pre-defined this as global shortcut (what, given the widespread usage would be a bug in that application)

If such happens again, try to allocate ctrl+w as global shortcut ("kcmshell4 keys") - the dialog will then tell you what currently has it assigned.