Global Shortcuts

[Beso]

2008/12/12 Andrew Stromme <andrew.stromme at gmail.com>:
> On Friday 12 December 2008 14:08:54 Rob Hall wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm having a problem with Global Shortcuts with Amarok 2. I'm running the
>> Kubuntu Launchpad packaged release on KDE 4.2 Beta 1 (also from Launchpad)
>> and when I assign my multimedia keys to Amarok Play/Pause, Next, Previous
>> and Stop Globally they don't seem to work?
>>
>> Keyboard in use is a Logitech G11 and the Global Keyboard Shortcuts Editor
>> is seeing the Media Keys correctly, ie Media Next, Media Play etc.
>>
>> Is this something peculiar to my set up or are other people having similar
>> problems.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Rob
>
>
> I've had some issues with amarok (and kde keybindings in general) in KDE 4.1
> in Intrepid. Sometimes I have to unset the keybindings, log out, log in, and
> reset them to get them to stick across sessions. You could also try restarting
> the khotkeys service (System Settings -> Advanced -> Services -> Stop and
> Start the KHotKeys service in the lower half).
>
the problem itself lies in the kde4 hotkeys handling. on gentoo and opensuse it
barely let me chose the bindings for system keys... on the trunk (4.2)
this seems
to have improved quite a lot but on the old 4.1.x versions this is one
of the biggest
issues.

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dott. ing. beso