So I recently upgraded to Plasma 6.2 on Debian Testing, and I’m finding in konsole instead of sending alt-f to Bash (keyboard forward over next word), it’s instead for some reason opening the Find dialog, even though it’s ctl-shift-f.
How do I figure out where/how alt-f is registered as a keyboard shortcut? Whether konsole or globally. There’s so many possible things that a shortcut can be set to, if I try and look through them all I’ll probably miss it.
There is 2 types of shorcuts (as I understand):
Ctrl+Shift+F.I’ve looked in both spots, again.
Edit -> Find is Ctl+Fkonsole keyboard shortcuts, Find... is listed as Ctl+Shift+FSo nothing in the obvious spots.
That’s strange. do you use zsh or bash or fish? In my .zshrc I have some shortcut set.
Edit: you can check in another terminal emulator like foot or kitty (for wayland) or qterminal.
Also I know 2 configuration files, that contains shortcuts, you can look into: in ~/.config there is kdeglobalshortcutsrc and kdeglobals.
Just to double-check if it’s some sort of global issue - if you go to an application that has a standard menu bar, like Dolphin with the menu bar option toggled on, does Alt+F open the File menu as you’d expect?
I mention 2 config files which contains shortcut config, Is there others? I add to konsole the shortcut Alt+F for Find, I don’t see it appearing in any of those nor in konsolerc.
I remember there where some change to shortcut management, some drop of global shortcut support in systemsettings.
Edit: Ok I found where konsole store its modified shortcuts, it is in ~/.local/share/kxmlgui5/konsole/sessionui.rc.
@alioth9 I have no ~/.config/kdeglobalshortcutsrc file, and nothing in kdeglobals that appear to have anything to do with shortcuts.
I use bash, nothing in global or ~/.bashrc file related to shortcuts. This is definitely a konsole or KDE dialog on the konsole window with the find, as normally is opened with ctl-shift-f.
However…I think I just figured it out. When pressing alt, it underlines the hotkeys along the toolbars. There’s the Main Toolbar along the upper left, with New Tab/Split View, and the Session Toolbar along the upper right, with Copy, Paste, Find, and the hamburger menu button.
And when I press Alt, it underlines the F on the Find. When I remove the Find Toolbar button, the issue disappears.
So something in the upgrade, or inherent to Plasma 6, Alt activates the toolbar hotkeys in konsole.
Ok the Alt triggering menu is a very old classic (before mouse exixted I think). Maybe there is a setting in systemsetting to set it but I don’t see it. Or in konsole settings.
Do you know what that functionality would be called?
Found it in Konsole settings > General there is Activate menu shortcut (not sure of the term in english)
Enable menu accelerators
As I said I was not sure of the english term. But It seems you uncheck it, so now what effect as it?
That’s how it was. I never touched that setting. This is what it is after doing the Debian Testing Plasma 5 → 6 upgrade.
Ah - there is an open bug report for the fact that while “Enable menu accelerators” has a toggle, there isn’t an equivalent checkbox for toolbar accelerators: 482628 – Allow disabling toolBar accelerator
Because those toolbar accelerators are now present, and because one of the Session Toolbar options is “Find”, Alt+F with the Session Toolbar open is triggering the Find action.
In the meantime, workaround options that have come up on the Bugzilla ticket include hiding the Session Toolbar (Settings menu > Toolbars Shown), or to use Alt+Shift+F as a replacement.
Hope that helps,
Yep. That’s where they originated. But… The few that are left come in very handy when you use a desktop automation tool such as AutoKey to perform multistep tasks with the press of a hotkey (shortcut key).
