Nearly no shortcut is working with registerShortcut(). There are some, though, but it seems that every letter shortcut is rejected. Among the ones I tested are "Meta+I", "Meta+Ctrl+I", "Meta+N", "Meta+B", "Ctrl+Alt+B" … I made sure to test shortcuts that were not registered yet. But some shortcuts do work, for example "Meta+F4" or "Meta+Num+8" (if NumPad is enabled). A working example: print("started"); registerShortcut("Test", "Test", "Meta+F4", () => print("works")); "started" is always printed to the journal, "works" only after a shortcut that was really registered (like "Meta+F4") is triggered. There is never any error message in the journal. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: KDE neon 5.27 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.9 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.111.0 Qt Version: 5.15.11 Kernel Version: 6.2.0-36-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 16 × Intel® Core™ i7-10875H CPU @ 2.30GHz Memory: 62.5 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics Manufacturer: TUXEDO Product Name: TUXEDO Book XC1711 System Version: Not Applicable
I got it up and running, but honestly, I don't know how. Mayby the shortcuts list was all messed up due to all my testing and this did the trick: qdbus org.kde.kglobalaccel /component/kwin org.kde.kglobalaccel.Component.cleanUp That might be it, as uninstalling or updating a script via UI (System Settings > Window Management > KWin Scripts) does not expunge the shortcuts list in ~/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc. But that doesn't explain why it didn't work in the first place. Hm, weird…