Bug 159063

Summary:	some keyboard shortcuts don't work
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdelibs	Reporter:	thomas klein <tma.klein>
Component:	shortcuts	Assignee:	kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	andresbajotierra, fanzhuyifan, finex, henrik.pauli, kde, mh, yannbenoit
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342493
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Description thomas klein 2008-03-10 12:43:10 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.0.2)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

some keyboard shortcuts don't work 

For desktop switching, I choose 
Alt-& for desktop 1
Alt-é for desktop 2
Alt-" for desktop 3
Alt-' for desktop 4

(that's Alt and '1' '2' '3' and '4' over 'a' 'z' 'e' anr 'r' on a french layout keyboard)

Bug : The second one (alt-é) don't get me on the desktop 2.

Comment 1 thomas klein 2008-04-05 12:31:24 UTC

bug still here in 4.0.3

Comment 2 Dario Andres 2008-11-29 21:43:40 UTC

Have you experienced this bug again with a recent KDE version ( 4.1.3 / 4.2beta1 / 4.2svn)? Thanks :) 

KDE Hotkeys are more or less broken in KDE4.1.x, but they are fixed in KDE4.2 :)

Comment 3 Ian Fischer 2008-12-18 08:50:19 UTC

I can verify that quite a few shortcuts do not work for me on Kubuntu 8.10 with KDE 4.1.85.  Examples are:

Konsole:
I set ctrl+tab to Next View and ctrl+shift+tab (ctrl+backtab is what it enters for me) for Previous View.  Next View works fine, but Previous View does nothing.

khotkeys:
I set Meta+T to open Konsole.  It does nothing.

KWin/Effects:
While trying out the various effects, anything involving Meta seemed to fail to activate with the keyboard shortcut.

Note that this is a brand new keyboard.  All of my keys work fine.  Furthermore, I can assign any keyboard shortcuts to Meta+whatever -- the assignment box enters the correct shortcut.  KDE just fails to detect the keypress when in use.  I will happily provide more information about my system setup if requested.

Comment 4 Dario Andres 2008-12-18 23:32:04 UTC

May be related to bug 173246 (look at bug 173246 comment 10)

Comment 5 Henrik Pauli 2009-03-15 03:41:21 UTC

I’d love to use Meta+T for terminals and Meta+arrows/Meta+Shift+arrows for desktop switching, I hope this bug gets fixed soon :)

Comment 6 Matthias Heinz 2009-05-29 16:16:33 UTC

Hi,

I have a similiar problem, and i tried a few things to figure it out. Is it possible that kde apps uses Qt::Key_Shift instead of Qt::SHIFT? I wrote a small test application for myself and Qt::Key_Shift never worked as modifier. Qt::SHIFT does.

I dont know if this is really related here, because i dont fully understand the source code, but it looks like the actions arent set properly. I hacked konsole a bit so that ctrl+shift+tab is the default for "previous tab". This works without any problem. But setting ctrl+shift+tab as non-default shortcut for something different doesnt work. It might be that shift is interpreted as key and not as modifier, but as i said I couldn't figure out where its set.

Comment 7 Tino Loeffler 2009-06-08 08:56:46 UTC

Hi,

I have the same problem (KDE4.2.4 from Buildservice on OpenSuse 11.1). Shift seems not to work as modifier. If I try to configure hotkeys in the systemsettings and press ALT+SHIFT a dialog pops up and tells me that this key isn't supported by Qt.

Cheers,
tonz

Comment 8 Matthias Heinz 2017-04-16 14:32:12 UTC

Hi,

this works with plasma-framework 5.28.0 for me. Since this is a very old bug, I suggest closing it, if nobody has any objections.


Matthias