Bug 357422

Summary:	Alt+F1 for K menu does not work and cannot be set
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Gregor Mi <codestruct>
Component:	Application Launcher (Kickoff) widget	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED REMIND
Severity:	normal	CC:	plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.5.2
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Gregor Mi 2016-01-02 11:17:38 UTC

Normally, Alt+F1 would open the application launcher (kickoff). But it does not.

When I used the widget settings to manually define the keyboard shortcut, there is nothing preset. 

When I try to assign...
- Alt+F1, it will not be accepted and there is no message why.
- Alt+F2, krunner is shown
- Alt+F6, it works

Comment 1 David Edmundson 2016-01-10 21:29:49 UTC

alt f1 works here.

There must be something else stealing your alt+f1

Comment 2 Gregor Mi 2016-01-11 14:36:23 UTC

I found the problem. In the Shortcuts settings dialog for KDE component "Plasma" there are Actions:

(1) "Activate Anwendungs-Starter Widget"
(2) "Activate Anwendungsmenü Widget"

The Alt+F1 was set to (2). I use the menu which was default in KDE4 and therefore the setting was grabbing away the key but had no effect.

Now, I set Alt+F1 to (1) which solved the problem.

Still, I for the normal user it is not easily possible to know to what the options (1) and (2) are referring to.