Bug 145732

Summary: global hotkeys don't work when menu is open
Product: kdesktop Reporter: Christian González <christian.gonzalez>
Component: generalAssignee: David Faure <faure>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: finex
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Christian González 2007-05-21 07:49:43 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.6)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
Compiler:          Target: i486-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.20-15-generic

It is not possible (for me?) to make a screenshot of an opened menu.
Steps to reproduce:

1. Open ANY menu (KDE menu, any app menu, right-click menu in sys tray,...)
2. Press [Print] button on keyboard (or the one you associated with ksnapshot)
3. knsnapshot doesn't start.

I think this is not a problem of ksnapshot.
I think it has something to do with that KDE doesn't accept global Hotkeys when a menu is opened.
BTW, I just recognized that the multimedia keys for e.g. amarok dont work either.

When a menu is opened, focus is there and I can't write in this edit box here e.g.
Thats. ok, but menus should (MUST!) be transparent for global hotkeys like the [print] button or multimedia keys.
Comment 1 David Faure 2007-05-21 12:31:22 UTC 
Qt grabs the keyboard when a menu is open. Not sure we can do much about that.
Comment 2 Christian González 2007-05-21 14:12:31 UTC 
Thanks for the info - Whow - fast answer.

So I think I'll file a qt bug at Trolltech's ;-)
Comment 3 Christian González 2007-05-21 18:41:31 UTC 
ok. I sent a bug report to Trolltech.
But I think they have plenty to do with Qt 4.3, so...
:-(
Mark this bug as WONTFIX/INVALID?
Comment 4 David Faure 2007-05-21 19:58:27 UTC 
On Monday 21 May 2007, Christian A.Reiter wrote:
> ok. I sent a bug report to Trolltech.

OK.

> But I think they have plenty to do with Qt 4.3, so...
> Mark this bug as WONTFIX/INVALID?

Well, the bug/wish is valid. We can wait until after Qt-4.3 to see TT fixing it, there's no rush :)
Comment 5 Christian González 2007-05-21 20:02:51 UTC 
ok, thank you.
Comment 6 Lubos Lunak 2008-01-24 17:07:12 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 70063 ***
Comment 7 FiNeX 2009-01-02 20:34:29 UTC 
Bug closed. Kdesktop is no more mantained.