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#1 2023-10-04 06:56:19
- jronald
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keyboard shortcuts in KDE Plasma ignore *.desktop for users
Env: KDE Plasma 5.27.8
e.g.
As below, both desktop files for application a exist.
/usr/share/applications/a.desktop
~/.local/share/applications/a.desktopWhen using keyboard shortcuts for application a,
/usr/share/applications/a.desktop will be used instead of ~/.local/share/applications/a.desktop which is expected.
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#2 2023-10-04 11:59:13
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Re: keyboard shortcuts in KDE Plasma ignore *.desktop for users
1. how do you determine that
2. https://man.archlinux.org/man/kbuildsycoca5.8.en
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#3 2023-10-05 03:19:36
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Re: keyboard shortcuts in KDE Plasma ignore *.desktop for users
1. how do you determine that
By practice.
If I modify /usr/share/applications/a.desktop, the keyboard shortcut will respect it.
If I add ~/.local/share/applications/a.desktop, the entry in the application menu will respect it, but the keyboard shortcut will not.
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#4 2023-10-05 06:04:49
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Re: keyboard shortcuts in KDE Plasma ignore *.desktop for users
Did you re-assign the shortcut after introducing ~/.local/share/applications/a.desktop ?
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#5 2023-10-05 09:24:19
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Re: keyboard shortcuts in KDE Plasma ignore *.desktop for users
Did you re-assign the shortcut after introducing ~/.local/share/applications/a.desktop ?
No
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#6 2023-10-05 12:28:51
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Re: keyboard shortcuts in KDE Plasma ignore *.desktop for users
The implied suggestion was to do that, b/c the shortcut probably doesn't launch the desktop service but bound to the Exec inside.
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#7 2023-10-10 05:56:33
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Re: keyboard shortcuts in KDE Plasma ignore *.desktop for users
The implied suggestion was to do that, b/c the shortcut probably doesn't launch the desktop service but bound to the Exec inside.
If /usr/share/applications/a.desktop is modified, the keyboard shortcuts respects it.
So keyboard shortcuts in this case calls /usr/share/applications/a.desktop.
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#8 2023-10-10 06:41:20
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Re: keyboard shortcuts in KDE Plasma ignore *.desktop for users
Next best theory would be that the shortcuthardwires the canonical path to the .desktop service, same result, same mitigation strategy.
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