Losing keyboard shortcut 'Application Launcher' in KDE4.1

I installed KDE4.1 last week, made keyboard shortcuts for some programs,
changed the default for Application Launcher (the green lizard/start
button) from Alt+F1 to Ctrl+Esc, and have lost any keyboard shortcut for
Application Launcher since then. Neither reassigning it, to default or
otherwise, nor changing it manually in the text file
-/home/<me-myself-i>/.kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc- while in init
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have worked.

What I would really like is 1-key access to that menu button; it seems
impossible so far, as the configuration through Personal Settings while
in KDE doesn’t accept Meta (the Windows key) alone as a shortcut. But
lacking that, how can I get a keyboard combination to stay?


silentstone

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I’ve never been able to get a keyboard shortcut for Application Launcher
on KDE 4 :\

Found ‘this’ (http://tinyurl.com/dxtd3a) unsolved Kubuntu bug.


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Thanks, freedguy. In that bug report, some reported regaining keyboard
access only after deleting -/home/$USER/.kde/share/config/- folder.
This would be -/home/$USER/.kde4/share/config/- on Suse 11.1, I
suppose. I’ll logout to console and try it. I notice that several
files in that folder have modify times of the time I booted/logged in to
KDE4:
> -rw-r–r-- 1 <me-myself-i> users 371 2009-02-04 18:16
> startupconfigkeys
> -rw------- 1 <me-myself-i> users 26605 2009-02-04 18:16
> kglobalshortcutsrc
> -rw------- 1 <me-myself-i> users 2665 2009-02-04 18:17
> phonondevicesrc
> -rw------- 1 <me-myself-i> users 126 2009-02-04 18:17
> kupdateappletrc
> -rw------- 1 <me-myself-i> users 354 2009-02-04 18:17 plasmarc
> -rw------- 1 <me-myself-i> users 2948 2009-02-04 18:17
> plasma-appletsrc
> -rw------- 1 <me-myself-i> users 1337 2009-02-04 18:20 krunnerrc
> -rw------- 1 <me-myself-i> users 39 2009-02-04 18:21 knotifyrc
> -rw------- 1 <me-myself-i> users 1243 2009-02-04 18:21 dolphinrc
> -rw------- 1 <me-myself-i> users 438 2009-02-04 18:21
> systemsettingsrc
> -rw------- 1 <me-myself-i> users 73 2009-02-04 18:21 kcmdisplayrc
> -rw-r–r-- 1 <me-myself-i> users 1508 2009-02-04 18:21 gtkrc-2.0
> -rw-r–r-- 1 <me-myself-i> users 1474 2009-02-04 18:21 gtkrc
> -rw-r–r-- 1 <me-myself-i> users 5473 2009-02-04 18:22 kdeglobals
>

Why would they get modified everytime KDE4 starts? And why just the
application launcher, because modifications to the panel remain, and
other created keyboard shortcuts work fine?


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Yeah, deleting the entire config folder restored all defaults. I’m not
looking forward to reconfiguring everything, only to reset it again when
a keyboard shortcut goes wandering. :\


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