Activate KDE Settings Scripts shortcuts

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Hello dear friends, greetings with real appreciation, I was wondering if you could give me some reason, regarding my predicament, I have assigned some key combinations to some scripts, and well it happens to me that 3/4 times they go ‘asleep’ and I don’t know how to activate them, well I must say that I blame having 4GB of RAM. If I could be of any help to you, I would be glad to, I think.

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Hi! Could you please share the details from the Info Center app for the system where that’s happening? The Copy Details button is the easiest way to paste that into a post here:

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And a few questions to help folks best guide you:

  • Could you also please share where you have those keyboard shortcuts configured - is it in the System Settings app > Keyboard > Shortcuts?
  • What are some examples of the key combinations that you’re having trouble with?
  • Have you noticed anything else consistently happening at the same time that those shortcuts are not working?
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Along with giving some basic information, we could try another idea, like ‘toggle dolphin’.

  1. If other dolphin windows are open, let’s end that whole session
  2. Let’s launch Dolphin dolphin if it isn’t already in use…
#!/usr/bin/env bash

if pgrep -x "dolphin"
        then pkill dolphin
    else
        dolphin
fi

Try to create a file with this text pasted in - name that file ‘dolphin’ and put it in a folder in your path.

You could put them in your /usr/.local/bin folder.

Make sure it is EXECUTABLE: chmod +x dolphin

Next, open two dolphin windows, then launch dolphin.

  • If this works, then the issue is likely with your scripts.
  • If not, then there’s something else needs looking at.

Finally, you can try binding this to a keyboard shortcut - something unique - and test if that works. I have this script bound to my keyboard dedicated ‘media’ key for :house: Home.

I use this (with a mouse gesture actually) because KDE doesn’t use Ctrl+Q to Quit an app entirely) and the next time it should start a fresh session.