khotkeys steal ctrl-w shortcut globally
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| KDE Base |
Fix Released
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Medium
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| kdebase-workspace (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: kdebase-workspace
After recent upgrade to kdebase-workspace 4:4.2.85-0ubuntu4 I noticed that I am unable to use ctrl-w shortcut to close my tabs&windows and to erase words in konsole command line (and probably other tasks requiring that shortcut). After some digging in System Settings (Keyboard&Mouse - Global shortcuts) I found that ctrl-w is globally remapped for khotkeys as 'Remap Ctrl-W to Ctrl-F4 in Qt Designer'. I had to revert this shortcut to default/none to recover former behaviour for my applications.
Don't know if this global remapping was introduced in the upgrade, or it had been for some time in my user/home settings, and upgrade only triggered it by fixing some old bug. Anyway, I am not sure I used Qt Designer at all, but I learned some use of Ctrl-W shortcut in my apps and also I guess it is specified in some GUI standards, so please don't steal it from under my feet :>
| Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in kdebase-workspace (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Fix Committed |
| Changed in kdebase: | |
| status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
| Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in kdebase-workspace (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
| Changed in kdebase: | |
| importance: | Unknown → Medium |
KDE has committed a fix for KDE 4.3 beta2.