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
3 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?
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?
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. :\