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thejavascriptman

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Registered: 2020-02-11

Posts: 25

khotkeys is not installed as a dependency of plasma-desktop

After upgrading to Plasma 5.18 keyboard shortcuts stopped working until I installed khotkeys manually.

I usually do a `pacman -Syu` and then a `pacman -Rnsc $(pacman -Qtdq)` after an update, and looking at my pacman.log I accidentally removed khotkeys because it was no longer a dependency.

grep khotkeys /var/log/pacman.log | grep 2020
[2020-01-09T08:40:52+0900] [ALPM] upgraded khotkeys (5.17.4-1 -> 5.17.5-1)
[2020-02-12T21:16:21+0900] [ALPM] upgraded khotkeys (5.17.5-1 -> 5.18.0-1)
[2020-02-12T21:18:40+0900] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Rnsc khotkeys'
[2020-02-12T21:18:41+0900] [ALPM] removed khotkeys (5.18.0-1)

Shouldn't khotkeys be a dependency of plasma-desktop? I know plasma-desktop is intended to only contain the core desktop, that's why I wonder if it is intentional not having khotkeys as a dependency.

arojas

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From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 2,097

Re: khotkeys is not installed as a dependency of plasma-desktop

Which keyboard shortcuts are you talking about? khotkeys is deprecated and will be removed in the near future, shortcut configuration is handled by kglobalaccel directly now.

thejavascriptman

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Registered: 2020-02-11

Posts: 25

Re: khotkeys is not installed as a dependency of plasma-desktop

There were 2 kinds of issues that were solved after installing khotkeys:
* "Global Shortcuts > KDE Daemon > Launch Konsole" was not working (even after re-assigning Ctrl+Alt-T)
* "Custom Shortcuts" was not visible so it wasn't possible to create shortcuts to make dbus calls (i.e. flameshot shortcuts)