Hey everyone,

I'm using Arch with KDE5 Plasma 5.10.

I'm using a custom keyboard layout different from any of the preset ones (BEAKL) and want to change the most basic keyboard shortcuts for copy, cut, paste, select all from say "ctrl+c" for copy to the corresponding key on my new layout, which is "ctrl+,", so I can stick to the finger movements I know.

Now when I make a change in the "System Settings -> Shortcuts -> Standard Shortcuts" section, the new shortcut "ctrl+," for copy will only work on the desktop or in dolphin - not in Google Chrome or even Leafpad, there the working shortcut is still "ctrl+c".

In the sub section "Global Shortcuts" I can only add application launches, which is somewhat confusing to me.

How can I make the shortcuts work the same everywhere, in every app?

Thanks in advance,

boogiewoogie

I believe that Standard Shortcuts module only affects KDE applications (which conform to using KDE's shortcuts settings). The other apps you listed are not KDE applications and must be configured separately.
afair, gnome or other desktops don't provide a similar central shortcut editor (they provide a way to set up desktop-level shortcuts, but not the default shortcuts used by their applications), which I suppose is unfortunate if you need to go through and change such common shortcuts across applications.