Custom Shortcut to open Konsole doesn't work
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I used one of the example Custom Shortcuts to give me the same functionality for opening a terminal that I'm used to from Unity: Ctrl+Alt+T should bring up a new terminal window.
 Unfortunately when I press Ctrl+Alt+T, Konsole flickers into life and then immediately fades out. (See screengrab) Have I set something wrong, or should I file a bug? If so, against what do I file the bug? Plasma 5? Konsole? other?
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At here:
Seems to work: http://i.imgur.com/LqEBRbV.gifv Have you tried with a new user ? - viewtopic.php?f=14&t=38828 Looked the logs ? - .xsession-errors - systemd journal:
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The shortcut works, but konsole immediately exits (crashes?)
Is there one/several konsole processes running? Can you start konsole otherwise? Do you get coredumps (or crashdialogs, after installing drkonqi) from the shortcut launch? |
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Thanks for your suggestions!
More information on my system:
With a new user, it works fine - so the problem must be in my settings somewhere. I checked .xsession-errors: here's the most recent output, after attempting to launch Konsole a couple more times. There is a lot that seems relevant, for example:
But I don't quite know what to do with this information. I guess I should, um, instantiate the QApplication object..? Also: Baloo keeps crashing as well, I don't know if this is in any way related or not? Any suggestions you can offer would be great!
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The warnings should be harmless and do not explain the termination of the konsole process.
I'd rather assume it terminates because a running konsole instance is detected? Test the behavior avoiding the shortcut, try to start "konsole" from eg. xterm (to obtain direct output) |
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This is the output from xterm:
I just realised I forgot to mention in my last post that konsole works fine when launched from synapse, kickoff or krunner. The problem is only when launching with the Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut.
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What happens if you open konsole in a "traditional" way, activate it and press "ctrl+alt+t"?
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exactly the same - another konsole window briefly appears and then disappears - the original konsole window stays open.
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ah, sorry. how does it behave with the hotkey deactivated?
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With the hotkey either deactivated or activated, Konsole windows open normally (when launched from krunner/other terminals/launcher etc).
This issue only occurs when using the shortcut - all other aspects of Konsole work as expected.
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what i meant is:
deactivate the shortcut, open konsole, press (and release) ctrl+alt+t as if the shortcut wasn't deactivated and see what happens to the active konsole. (there must be some reason for the immediate exit and i suspect the particular key release events to be invoked) |
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nothing happens - there's no output in the active konsole.
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gnarf.
what happens with other shortcuts? (ctrl+alt+u) what if you change the executed comand to "sleep 2; konsole"? |
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ctrl + alt + u brings up a dialog:
"No suitable Zmodem software wasfound on this system..." "sleep 2; konsole" works though! it pauses and then opens Konsole as expected.
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Sounds as if it doesn't the key grab and/or press state?
What if you run "sleep 5; konsole" (from eg. xterm), open a popup menu (NOT the alt+f3 titlebar menu, it will autp-close with new windows) and keep the up arrow pressed? Since ctrl+alt+u seems somehow grabbed(?) try a random other combination (ctrl+alt+s etc.) to cross-check whether it is only this particular grab. |
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