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. 2. 3. 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.
Did you try to bind the shortcut to some other action, like "konsole"?
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.
Please notice that config writing pre-5.5 is known to be buggy, please check whether it's still an issue with 5.5.
Works for me with Frameworks 5.57.