Bug 176385

Summary:	Change default keyboard shortcuts
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	Yves Glodt <yg>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	andresbajotierra, kde2, robertknight
Priority:	NOR
Version:	2.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Yves Glodt 2008-11-28 23:44:30 UTC

Version:           2.1 (using 4.1.3 (KDE 4.1.3), Kubuntu packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.27-10-generic

Konsole defaults to ctrl-shift-m for opening a new window, it seems most other kde apps default to ctrl-n. It would be nice if konsole would act the same way... :-)

Btw, it would also be nice if konsole would have ctrl-t preconfigured as default "open new tab" shortcut.

Comment 1 Dario Andres 2009-01-23 11:56:53 UTC

I think this isn't possible as all the Ctrl+Letter shortcut are catched by the shell itself (like you can't copy some text pressing Ctrl+C cause that will close the currently running application/command)

Comment 2 Robert Knight 2009-01-23 12:48:02 UTC

Ctrl+<Letter> shortcuts are reserved for use by terminal applications but where possible we try to take the 'standard' shortcut for an action and add Shift.  So Ctrl+Shift+C, Ctrl+Shift+V are copy and paste and Ctrl+Shift+W is close tab.

Comment 3 Robert Knight 2009-01-23 12:49:30 UTC

Actually I might re-think the new tab shortcut though.  Currently Ctrl+Shift+N is used because that is equivalent to the 'new document' shortcut and Konsole is tab-orientated.  Ctrl+Shift+T might be better but we currently use that for splitting the view top/bottom.

Comment 4 argonel 2010-11-18 18:07:22 UTC

*** Bug 257251 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Diggory Hardy 2010-11-18 18:21:25 UTC

First of all my apologies for missing this report earlier and opening a new bug report.

May I add two cents though? As far as I am aware (but correct me if I'm wrong), the Ctrl+T and Ctrl+N shortcuts are not usually used by bash, etc. Is it then really so bad to use these instead as konsole shortcuts? Presumably users needing to pass these to the shell would in any case notice what is happening and reassign the new tab/window shortcuts.