In the "Global Shortcuts" section of the "Shortcuts" settings page there's an option to assign a shortcuts for certain actions with any application from system menu. However, it does seem to work only with apps that have at least one Desktop Action, for example Konsole or Chromium. I had created a 'test.desktop' file and assigned a shortcut to it. Shortcut wasn't even considered a shortcut - if I pressed Meta+X (I assigned it) I was getting "x" characters in a text fields. So then I added a simple Desktop Action to 'test.desktop' file. To my surprise it actually worked and i was able to launch that .desktop file (Note: I had to delete it and add again so the Action was added too). And I mean exactly launch, not use Desktop Action, but use "Launch" action that is present on everything you add. This is very strange bug, and though it's not being major, because you still can use custom shortcuts, I hope it to get fixed soon.
I have the same bug too.
Here are the screenshots that describe the problem: http://storage6.static.itmages.ru/i/18/0105/h_1515179827_6093518_366c7ab21f.png http://storage6.static.itmages.ru/i/18/0105/h_1515179827_7819723_9ee3b171ba.png
Still not fixed in 5.12.
When you first add an application with '+' and set a global shortcut for launching it like shown in comment 2, it doesn't work initially. This applies to Dolphin, for example. However, it WILL work on the next log in. It seems like this bug only affects newly added entries before there has been a log out. Modifying already existing entries seems to work fine and they take effect immediately.
*** Bug 347509 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 393877 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 411887 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Git commit 1ee6660ceb62d4584a5371d0cce107b7008e75df by David Redondo. Committed on 30/04/2020 at 16:51. Pushed by davidre into branch 'master'. Rewrite of the global shortcuts kcm Summary: This is a total rewrite of the global shortcuts kcm from scratch. It uses an abstract item model backend with a qml frontend. This resolves some issues the old kcm inherently had because it just stacked KShortcutEditors. First it enables a global serach/filter which either matches the component name, actions, default or set key combinations across components. Secondly KGlobalAccel can have multiple default/active key combinations for each action - the old kcm only exposed two each. The new kcm displays all default or set key combinations. The main visual structure is similiar to the old kcm. On the left there is a list with all components but rather than divided into "Application Launchers" and "Other Shortcuts" the sections are now called "Applications" and "System Services" (cf. notifications kcm) and the components are now assigned whether the service we find for a component is an application or not rather if the component was added via .desktop file. In the main view the shortcuts are displayed. Each item corresponds to one action. Initially each item is collapsed and shows the action name and a list of the currently set key combinations for that action. In the expanded form all default shortcuts are shown which can be activated or deactivated and all other active shortcuts ("Custom Shortcuts"). It is possible to change, remove or add new custom shortcuts. The kcm and model communicate directly with the daemon over DBus. This removes the need to awkwardly construct actions to pass to the KGlobalAccel API. Related: bug 157468, bug 213101, bug 230583, bug 250121, bug 251437, bug 272554, bug 318964, bug 341817, bug 348264, bug 366257, bug 369020, bug 393403, bug 408942, bug 416149, bug 416737, bug 417915, bug 419215, bug 419515, bug 419624, bug 419692, bug 419825, bug 419909, bug 420093 FIXED-IN: 5.19.0 Closes T7267 Test Plan: kcmshell5 kcm_keys {F8243559} {F8243560} {F8243561} {F8243562} {F8243563} {F8243564} Reviewers: #vdg, #plasma, ngraham Reviewed By: #vdg, ngraham Subscribers: GB_2, broulik, davidedmundson, nicolasfella, ngraham, iasensio, plasma-devel Tags: #plasma Maniphest Tasks: T7267 Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D28744 M +43 -33 kcms/keys/CMakeLists.txt D +0 -29 kcms/keys/ChangeLog M +1 -6 kcms/keys/Messages.sh D +0 -7 kcms/keys/README D +0 -84 kcms/keys/export_scheme_dialog.cpp D +0 -59 kcms/keys/export_scheme_dialog.h D +0 -35 kcms/keys/export_scheme_dialog.ui A +82 -0 kcms/keys/filteredmodel.cpp [License: GPL (v2/3)] A +46 -0 kcms/keys/filteredmodel.h [License: GPL (v2/3)] D +0 -89 kcms/keys/globalshortcuts.cpp D +0 -44 kcms/keys/globalshortcuts.h A +198 -0 kcms/keys/kcm_keys.cpp [License: GPL (v2/3)] R +1 -1 kcms/keys/kcm_keys.desktop [from: kcms/keys/keys.desktop - 099% similarity] A +74 -0 kcms/keys/kcm_keys.h [License: GPL (v2/3)] D +0 -856 kcms/keys/kglobalshortcutseditor.cpp D +0 -153 kcms/keys/kglobalshortcutseditor.h D +0 -130 kcms/keys/kglobalshortcutseditor.ui A +216 -0 kcms/keys/package/contents/ui/ShortcutActionDelegate.qml [License: GPL (v2+)] A +302 -0 kcms/keys/package/contents/ui/main.qml [License: GPL (v2+)] A +17 -0 kcms/keys/package/metadata.desktop D +0 -77 kcms/keys/select_application.ui D +0 -102 kcms/keys/select_scheme_dialog.cpp D +0 -51 kcms/keys/select_scheme_dialog.h D +0 -150 kcms/keys/select_scheme_dialog.ui A +489 -0 kcms/keys/shortcutsmodel.cpp [License: GPL (v2+)] A +112 -0 kcms/keys/shortcutsmodel.h [License: GPL (v2/3)] https://commits.kde.org/plasma-desktop/1ee6660ceb62d4584a5371d0cce107b7008e75df