Bug 274155

Summary:	Shortcut keys don't work sometimes (after upgrade from KDE 3?)
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Milko Krachounov <exabyte>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Unlisted Binaries
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Milko Krachounov 2011-05-25 23:43:19 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.2) 
OS:                Linux

When I upgraded to KDE 4.1 (or 4.2, I don't remember) from KDE 3.5.x, none of the keyboard shortcuts worked, and I got error messages like:

The key sequence 'Ctrl+S' is ambiguous. Use 'Configure Shortcuts'
from the 'Settings' menu to solve the ambiguity.
No action will be triggered.

I had to change Ctrl+S to something else and back to get it to work. After a few versions, I didn't have to do it any more - changing the shortcut once made it work on every following restart of Kate.

Since then, the same error occurred to me once or twice, but it was gone after changing the shortcut or restarting Kate, until today when I closed a Kate session and opened it again, and, voila, no shortcut combinations work. Every time I get:

The key sequence 'Ctrl+F' is ambiguous. Use 'Configure Shortcuts'
from the 'Settings' menu to solve the ambiguity.
No action will be triggered.

The key sequence 'F3' is ambiguous. Use 'Configure Shortcuts'
from the 'Settings' menu to solve the ambiguity.
No action will be triggered.

The key sequence 'Ctrl+S' is ambiguous. Use 'Configure Shortcuts'
from the 'Settings' menu to solve the ambiguity.
No action will be triggered.

Neither restarting Kate nor changing them seems to fix it.

I've had this problem on Gentoo and Debian so far.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Comment 1 Milko Krachounov 2011-05-25 23:49:25 UTC

Oh, my mistake: Changing the shortcut to another key and back doesn't solve the problem and *never did*, I have to change the shortcut to the same key (e.g. if the default shortcut for Find is Ctrl+F, I choose a custom one and press Ctrl+F), it tells me that it is already in use by another action, and I tell it to move it to this action. When I do this I stop getting the error for this shortcut and for any other too.

Also this is what fixed it every time, and it's possible that it never worked by just restarting Kate. And it's likely that the incidents are uniformly distributed over time since KDE 4.1/4.2, and not grouped around the first releases as I hinted in the first post.

Sorry for my bad memory, I'm bad at remembering something that happened so long ago.

Comment 2 Dominik Haumann 2011-06-25 09:47:02 UTC

Milko, are you using split views in Kate?

Comment 3 Milko Krachounov 2011-06-27 15:58:19 UTC

Yes.

Comment 4 Dominik Haumann 2011-06-28 19:32:08 UTC

Ok, then it's a very well known issue...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 188764 ***