Bug 503493

Summary:	Change default shortcut for switching to fullscreen mode
Product:	[Applications] krdc	Reporter:	Steffen W. <steffen-winkler>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Urs Wolfer <uwolfer>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	ctrlaltca
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	25.04.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Steffen W. 2025-04-28 20:34:47 UTC

Hi,

today I noticed that the default shortcut for switching between fullscreen and windowed mode in KRDC is Ctrl+Shift+F. This is a bit unfortunate, as that is also the shortcut for the advanced search feature of a lot of applications. From Kate to Visual Studio a lot of different applications across different operating systems are using it.

Of course it is easy to change, I now swapped it to Ctrl + LAlt + F which works fine for my usecase. Not sure if LAlt+Shift+F or Ctrl + LAlt + Shift + F would be best as a default. I've also not looked at what other similar applications use to switch between fullscreen and normal mode.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.13.0
Qt Version: 6.9.0
Kernel Version: 6.14.3-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland

Comment 1 Fabio 2025-04-29 08:05:39 UTC

Yep, the situation with shortcuts is unfortunate. For every key combination you're going to find an app already using it.
Eg. ctrl+alt+F is commonly used in word/googledocs (add footnote) and photoshop (run filter).

Enabling "Grab all keys" avoids the issue but can be annoying if you jump frequently in / out the rdp connection.
You can customize the shortcuts to try to adapt them to your workflow / most commonly used apps.

Before changing the default in krdc it would be good to have a general consensus.
Windows rdp client uses ctrl+alt+pause/break
Remmina uses host + F (with host defaulting to ctrl_right), as does Virtualbox

Comment 2 Steffen W. 2025-09-04 11:02:58 UTC

I may have found a shortcut that makes some sense and is probably not used by any other application: <super>+F11

F11 by itself is used by some webbrowsers to switch to fullscreen, but <super>+F11 isn't used by anything as far as I can tell. I tried it in several applications and I checked on some websites that have lists of shortcuts for different applications.