Bug 348859

Summary: Tried to install a hotkey (Meta-C) to implement a shell program talk.sh. Hotkey didn't work.
Product: [Unmaintained] khotkeys Reporter: William Stowell <wstowell>
Component: generalAssignee: Michael Jansen <kde>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: kim.lindberger, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Mint (Ubuntu based)   
OS: Linux   
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Description William Stowell 2015-06-07 20:49:43 UTC 
I'm running Mint 17.1 64 bit on  a Lenovo Y50-70 laptop.  I  followed the directions from HakTip - Free Text to Speech with Linux --https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uKTamXonPs--- to have a shell script and hot key that would allow me to text.  Everything worked until I tried to set up the hotkey.  I have a KDE interface and clicked on custom keyboard settings; clicked on new, added a comment, meta-C as a hotkey and /home/wstowell/talk.sh as the action.  Saved the file, closed the file, re-opened the file and my new definitions were as I had entered them.  Highlighted some text and hit meta-c--nothing happened.   Restarted computer and tried again--nothing happened.  Looked at the custom key settings again and everything looked fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Described above.
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Actual Results:  
nothing happened

Expected Results:  
highlighted text should be read via festival text-to-speech engine

The same talk.sh script and meta key combination works on my 32 bit version of Mint on my L:enovo R61 laptop.
Comment 1 Thomas Lübking 2015-10-15 22:17:30 UTC 
Did you try to bind the shortcut to some other action, like "konsole"?
Comment 2 Kim Lindberger 2015-11-19 10:10:04 UTC 
Can confirm this on a clean install of Arch Linux with khotkeys 5.4.3-1. I've tried to add a shortcut for Meta+C (or any other combination) to open Konsole, but nothing works. This worked fine on other installs with kde4.
Comment 3 Thomas Lübking 2015-12-24 21:42:03 UTC 
Please notice that config writing pre-5.5 is known to be buggy, please check whether it's still an issue with 5.5.
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2019-03-17 15:49:00 UTC 
Works for me with Frameworks 5.57.