Khotkeys not doing anything - SOLVED

[efAston]

Hi,

I've got two entries in kmenu that I want to be able to launch using shortcuts, I've set up and enabled both with shortcuts, and when I press the shortcut on the keyboard, nothing happens.

What I did:
Right-click on kmenu - click on Menu editor
Select Wine - Oxford Dictionary (working shortcut) select advanced tab
Create shortcut key Ctrl+'
Click Save
All good, the shortcut key has been saved when I re-open, but if I press Ctrl+' - nothing happens.

Then I opened System Settings - Input Actions
Oxford is there, is ticked, and Ctrl+' is shown under the trigger tab
/home/aston/.kde/share/config/khotkeysrc shows Enabled=true

It doesn't look like I'm the only one having this problem, does it work for anyone?

Cheers,
Aston

[efAston]

Started working by itself. Maybe Linux isn't so reboot independent.

[toad]

Started working by itself. Maybe Linux isn't so reboot independent.
A simple logout would have done it for KDE.

Anyway, glad you got it sorted and could you please mark this topic as solved (see my signature).

Thank you :)

[oshunluvr]

efAston: I take it you're a bit new to linux?

Order of problem solving for issues like this one:

Restart the service: Look in /etc/init.d for a list of most of your services. Audio, network and others can easily be restarted from a konsole terminal with a simple command.

For example: sudo service network restart

This doesn't work in all cases, but many.

Log out and back in: This will both shutdown and then restart most user services.

Restart the Display Manager: Log out, goto to TTY terminal (ALT-F1), log in and then type sudo kdm restart

Reboot: Last resort if the options above don't work.

In most cases, a full reboot is only needed when you install a new kernel or kernel installed driver (like nvidia drivers) to activate the new kernel or driver. Of course, sometimes it's quicker to reboot, but I encourage you to dig a little deeper and learn a new linux "tool" :)

Networking is a great example: You can turn devices on or off, change routes or countless other settings, experiment as you wish - then start over with a one line command.

[efAston]

OK that's pretty useful since I have rebooted a couple of times when my laptop wouldn't connect to the wireless properly. I'm not being snide about Linux or anything BTW, in fact I make the comment because it's out of character. For me to change settings without being given indication that I need to do something else to make them take effect, and then have them not work until a later day when I try them, something's amiss, not whinging about it but there it is.

And toad, to be honest, I thought they removed the close question option, because I used to be able to find it and lately I can't :/.

[toad]

Closed question? Oh, I never used that, never even noticed it :-[ I've always done it (in all forums) the way I put it in my signature...

And your comments weren't being taken as snide, no worries.

[oshunluvr]

I don't think anyone thought that was snide at all - Thank goodness something mysterious happened that was good rather than bad! :D

For those of us who are used to linux and how it works - the worst thing someone new will do is reinstall over a problem rather than taking a few minutes to dig into it a bit. I always try and encourage a full investigation before wiping things out.

I think it's because most users are used to windows where technical support consists of "Reboot, Then Re-Install".

Re: Toad's request - the way it's done here is you return to your original post - the first one in the thread - then click on "Modify" and add an appropriate comment to the Subject line, i.e.

<Solved>
<Resolved>
<Work Around>

you get the idea...

It helps us trolls know something is fixed! Thanks