Arch Linux

Mika79

Member

Registered: 2016-03-28

Posts: 32

Qt Creator multikey keyboard shortcuts unuseable

Hello everybody,

I used my own Qt build and my own Qt Creator beta build and that works great.

Now there was an update to Qt 5.6 in the arch repos, and I thought I can just use that instead of my own build. Alas, Qt Creator key bindings using more then one key do not work when Qt runs linked against the arch supplied Qt. The one I use often is for git committing. Holding alt and pressing g and c should invoke the git commit dialog, but when its linked against the system Qt pressing alt+g immediatly starts a debug session, not waiting for the release of the G key nor for another key. For what its worth alt+g isnt even bound to any shortcut in the settings of Qt Creator, debugging should start on F5.

I searched and queried for help in the qt and kde irc channels, tried to see in the ABS scripts if something hints me why it does not work, and found no solution (except of course that I could keep using my own build or reassign the shortcuts). F.e. using another keyboard layout doesn't yield a solution (I use us international with accent keys under plasma5).

I cannot imagine Im the only one using Qt Creator under such setup and committing with it to a git repo.

So to recap:

selfbuild Qt + selfbuild QtCreator -> works
system Qt + system QtCreator -> does not work
system Qt + selfbuild QtCreator -> does not work
selfbuild Qt + modified ABS version of QtCreator to build against my own Qt -> works

So any setting in the arch linux Qt or KDE libraries must be guilty.

Probably I just failed to find and easy and obvious solution reachable in the first few results of any search machine on the net, if that is so I beg your pardon, but in any case I would be glad for some support here.

Thanks