KDE4 global hotkeys working no more

[Lapo Luchini]

(first of all, thanks for the help)

Duncan wrote:
>> % qdbus org.kde.kglobalaccel /component/kwin \
>>     org.kde.kglobalaccel.Component.isActive
>> true
> 
> You can also check to see if there's a kglobalaccel app running.

Yup it is runinng:

% pgrep -lf kglobal
2197 kdeinit4: kdeinit4: kglobalaccel

If I kill it, the "qdbus" query above then fails.
If I run it again, it gets back to working (though it's then different
in pgrep output as it's kinda standalone and not launched by kdeinit4).

>  PID TTY          TIME CMD
> 2195 ?        00:00:00 kglobalaccel

2195 vs 2197, what a chance. =)

> I don't know if freebsd uses split or monolithic kde packages but here on 
> Gentoo, it's split packages, and I have both kglobalaccel and khotkeys 
> installed as part of larger meta-packages.

Just the same on FreeBSD:

% pkg_info -W /usr/local/kde4/bin/kglobalaccel
[...] was installed by package kdebase-runtime-4.5.5
% pkg_info -W /usr/local/kde4/lib/kde4/kded_khotkeys.so
[...] was installed by package kdebase-workspace-4.5.5

> Talking about which... have you tried creating a fresh user, without an 
> existing kde config (or from the command line without kde running, simply 
> move the test user's kde config, usually ~/.kde or the like, out of the 
> way, so a new, blank one is created for testing, when you start kde)?

Oh, right. I tried that just now: "mv .kde4 .kde4.bak" creates a new
profile which does NOT show the problem: hotkeys work correctly.

I then did:
% mv .kde4.bak .kde4
% rm .kde4/share/config/khotkeysrc
% rm .kde4/share/config/kglobalshortcutsrc

...nothing changed.

What other configuration stuff is involved in hotkey managing?
Keyboard layout maybe? I guess not... but I'm using compose:rwin, FWIW.

cheers,

-- 
Lapo Luchini - http://lapo.it/
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