Re: [arch-general] how to Map shortcut keys in KDE4.3 to lunch custom Applications?

2010-01-30 Thread Gaurish Sharma
Hi All,
After reading your suggestions, I have managed to get the shortcuts
working. Thanks!

Regards,
Gaurish Sharma
www.gaurishsharma.com


Re: [arch-general] how to Map shortcut keys in KDE4.3 to lunch custom Applications?

2010-01-28 Thread David Rosenstrauch

On 01/27/2010 05:12 PM, Gaurish Sharma wrote:

Hi,
I was able to launch Amarok via the extra media key present on my
keyboard. been using the exact same method for speedcrunch, it does
not work :(

Regards,
Gaurish Sharma



I had the same problem with the calculator key under KDE.  It must be a 
KDE (or perhaps QT) bug of some sort.  After I switched to Xfce (because 
of this problem, as well as a whole bunch of others with KDE4) I haven't 
had any problem mapping those keys.


DR


Re: [arch-general] how to Map shortcut keys in KDE4.3 to lunch custom Applications?

2010-01-27 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Thursday 28 January 2010 03:42:27 Gaurish Sharma wrote:
> I was able to launch Amarok via the extra media key present on my
> keyboard. been using the exact same method for speedcrunch, it does
> not work :(

Pl. follow these steps and tell us if it worked.

- Go to system settings -> input actions
- right click on an empty space in the left side pane, select new group, give 
it a name. There is a box on right hand side of that tree, that is a checkbox, 
enable/check  it.
- right click on the newly created tree node, select new -> global shortcut -> 
command/URL. A similar node will be created, name it and enable it as above
- Click on the newly created node, fill in action and the shortcut
- click apply.

I repeated same steps exactly and managed to map ksudoku to Ctrl+U.

HTH
-- 
Regards 
 Shridhar


Re: [arch-general] how to Map shortcut keys in KDE4.3 to lunch custom Applications?

2010-01-27 Thread Christos Nouskas
Gaurish Sharma wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am using KDE 4.3 Desktop on Archlinux 64bit. I have query regarding
> Custom keyboard shortcuts. I have few extra hotkeys on my
> keyboard(Microsoft Basic wired Keyboard 500). They keys have already
> mapped and few of them work too.  "Play" does play/pause in amarok.
> 
> However few keys do not work. I want to map these these to do some
> actions. like I want the calc hotkey to launch a application
> speedcrunch. I think this has something to with Khotkeys configration,
> But I haven't been able to figure out how exactly to configure
> khotkeys due to lack of documentation.
> 
> So I need your help,
>  How to map Custom Keyboard Shortcuts to launch custom Application on
>  KDE4.3?

 Have you tried extra/keytouch[-editor]?


-- 
X.


Re: [arch-general] how to Map shortcut keys in KDE4.3 to lunch custom Applications?

2010-01-27 Thread Gaurish Sharma
Hi,
I was able to launch Amarok via the extra media key present on my
keyboard. been using the exact same method for speedcrunch, it does
not work :(

Regards,
Gaurish Sharma



On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Shridhar Daithankar
 wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 January 2010 19:57:26 Gaurish Sharma wrote:
>> Hi,
>> A Rojas and Shridhar Daithankar,
>> I tried your suggest and mapped the shortcut key to launch speedcrunch
>> but it does not work :)
>>
>> * Screenshots:
>> http://www.imagebam.com/image/29bf3765418046
>> http://www.imagebam.com/image/69c59c65418047
>> http://www.imagebam.com/image/ea6b1b65418049
>> http://www.imagebam.com/image/50ed2c65418050
>>
>> any idea what exactly is wrong?
>
> Tried creating a new group in input actions? You don't have to change anything
> in global shortcuts. Everything is to be done from input actions.
>
> Its tricky and I didn't get it right for quite some time. The UI is not
> intuitive :)
>
> --
> Regards
>  Shridhar
>


Re: [arch-general] how to Map shortcut keys in KDE4.3 to lunch custom Applications?

2010-01-26 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 26 January 2010 19:57:26 Gaurish Sharma wrote:
> Hi,
> A Rojas and Shridhar Daithankar,
> I tried your suggest and mapped the shortcut key to launch speedcrunch
> but it does not work :)
> 
> * Screenshots:
> http://www.imagebam.com/image/29bf3765418046
> http://www.imagebam.com/image/69c59c65418047
> http://www.imagebam.com/image/ea6b1b65418049
> http://www.imagebam.com/image/50ed2c65418050
> 
> any idea what exactly is wrong?

Tried creating a new group in input actions? You don't have to change anything 
in global shortcuts. Everything is to be done from input actions. 

Its tricky and I didn't get it right for quite some time. The UI is not 
intuitive :)

-- 
Regards 
 Shridhar


Re: [arch-general] how to Map shortcut keys in KDE4.3 to lunch custom Applications?

2010-01-26 Thread Gaurish Sharma
Hi,
A Rojas and Shridhar Daithankar,
I tried your suggest and mapped the shortcut key to launch speedcrunch
but it does not work :)

* Screenshots:
http://www.imagebam.com/image/29bf3765418046
http://www.imagebam.com/image/69c59c65418047
http://www.imagebam.com/image/ea6b1b65418049
http://www.imagebam.com/image/50ed2c65418050

any idea what exactly is wrong?

Regards,
Gaurish Sharma
www.gaurishsharma.com


Re: [arch-general] how to Map shortcut keys in KDE4.3 to lunch custom Applications?

2010-01-26 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 26 January 2010 14:46:03 Gaurish Sharma wrote:
>  How to map Custom Keyboard Shortcuts to launch custom Application on
>  KDE4.3?

Add custom input actions from system settings. First add a new group and then 
new actions under it.

Special keys should not conflict with existing shortcuts but kde shortcuts are 
GUI  equivalent of ls options. Almost every possible one is already taken.

-- 
Regards 
 Shridhar


Re: [arch-general] how to Map shortcut keys in KDE4.3 to lunch custom Applications?

2010-01-26 Thread A Rojas
Gaurish Sharma wrote:


> So I need your help,
>  How to map Custom Keyboard Shortcuts to launch custom Application on
>  KDE4.3?
> 
> 

Open the menu editor by right-clicking the menu launcher icon on the panel. 
Then select the application you want to assign a shortcut to, and in the 
Advenced tab you can assign the shortcut. However, you can only assign keys 
that are recognized by Qt. There are many special keys that are not 
recognized by Qt<=4.5. 
 Qt 4.6 will have much better special key support (at least all special keys 
on my laptop are recognized)



[arch-general] how to Map shortcut keys in KDE4.3 to lunch custom Applications?

2010-01-26 Thread Gaurish Sharma
Hi All,
I am using KDE 4.3 Desktop on Archlinux 64bit. I have query regarding
Custom keyboard shortcuts. I have few extra hotkeys on my
keyboard(Microsoft Basic wired Keyboard 500). They keys have already
mapped and few of them work too.  "Play" does play/pause in amarok.

However few keys do not work. I want to map these these to do some
actions. like I want the calc hotkey to launch a application
speedcrunch. I think this has something to with Khotkeys configration,
But I haven't been able to figure out how exactly to configure
khotkeys due to lack of documentation.

So I need your help,
 How to map Custom Keyboard Shortcuts to launch custom Application on KDE4.3?


Regards,
Gaurish Sharma
www.gaurishsharma.com