Version: 4.4 (using KDE 4.4.5) OS: Linux Not sure if this should go into kwin instead. When some key combination K is already set up as a global shortcut for some application (be that application running or not), I can't set up K as a window shortcut key. The button that expects me to input the shortcut sequence immediately jumps back to "None". I.e. I don't get the kind of feedback that I get in other similar situations, i.e. a dialog informing me that that shortcut is already used, and asking whether I'd like to reassign it. If the application for which K has been set up is not running, I do not even see any feedback in ~/.xsession-errors when pressing that sequence. The only way to find out what application K had been set up was going to the global keyboard shortcut configuration in system settings and trying to assign K to some random action. There, I got a warning that K was already in use. Reproducible: Always
> I don't get the kind of feedback that I get in other similar situations You are right, the standard shortcuts editor checks this situation and shows the "conflict" message. Using kwin's menu item "Window Shortcut..." there is no such message, and this is a kwin bug.
SVN commit 1195365 by luebking: improve keyboard navigation of the window shortcut dialog, add a conflict warning kkeysequencewidget only needs the pushbutton as focusproxy BUG: 182873 BUG: 251297 M +33 -7 kdebase/workspace/kwin/utils.cpp M +3 -0 kdebase/workspace/kwin/utils.h M +1 -0 kdelibs/kdeui/widgets/kkeysequencewidget.cpp WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1195365