Hi,
I have my irssi windows on Alt0-9 for Windows 0-9 plus Alt Q to O for Windows 10-19. Alt-E opens Konsole’s Edit Menu instead of calling up Window 13.
i NEVER use the Edit Menu with a keyboard shortcut.
How can I get rid of that shortcut?
Greetings
Marc
hi, welcome.
for global shortcuts (available across all applications) the shortcuts settings is the easiest way to change or disable a shortcut.
click anywhere on the background and type “shortcut”, then go to the settings page that appears in the search results.
the search field can be used to either find commands you want to assign shortcuts, or find shortcuts that are assigned to commands.
for application specific shortcuts like in konsole, you can go to menu, settings, configure keyboard shortcuts ( or use ctrl+alt+, )
by default, using alt+e on my konsole does nothing and does not seem to be applied to any global function either.
when i set up konsole as shown, it will switch to the 13th tab using the alt+e shortcut without issue.
Disable or reassign Alt-E in Konsole’s Settings > Configure Shortcuts to stop it opening the Edit menu. If it’s not there, check your desktop environment’s global shortcuts.
Restart Konsole after changes, and Alt-E will work for irssi.
I reassigned Alt-E in my Konsole settings to “About Konsole”, and hitting Alt-E in a Konsole window still opens the Edit menu. My desktop Environment is KDE Plasma, but “About KDE” in Konsole doesn’t say which version it is. Konsole itself says it’s version 25.04.02 running on KDE Framework 6.13.0 with QT 6.8.2.
When I follow your directions, I end up in Control Panel’s Shortcuts Applet, and there, Alt-E is mapped to “Export”. That’s also what I inadvertently invoke when I hit Alt-E in the search field.
Greetings
Marc
(I might be a newbie here, but I am a user of KDE (Plasma) for over 20 years)
i don’t have anything mapped to alt-E
do you use alt-E in another context?
if not why not just remove that global binding and that should free it up for konsole.
No, I have not set that binding manually. And I don’t see the global binding anywhere. That’s why I am asking this question, where might a global binding be?
you said in your previous post that …
I end up in Control Panel’s Shortcuts Applet, and there, Alt-E is mapped to “Export”.
i have no such binding
in fact i don’t have any items that match with “export” either, but maybe you have app installed that i don’t.
i’m suggesting you clear that binding (unless you are using it for something else), because that would be my most likely suspect as to what is causing your konsole bindings to not switch tabs the way you expect.
Okay, that was my problem. I just held the Alt key and typed E, while you obviously typed “alt+e” as in three letters a, l, and t, plus, e. After doing so, I see exactly the same as you see on the screenshot you sent. So I don’t have a key binding for Alt+E, which is what I am trying to say for the better part of today. If there is a key binding for Alt+E, I don’t see it, and so it doesn’t help me to say that I should “just delete it”. I need to be told WHERE to delete it.
when you click on the desktop and use alt+E, what happens?
should be nothing, but if a window comes up take a screenshot and post it
open a konsole window and use alt+E, what happens?
should also be nothing, but if a window comes up take a screenshot and post it.
and also call up the konsole shortcuts menu and post a screen shot of that so we can see what keybindings are set up in your konsole.
last thing to try is create a new user and see if this weird phantom alt+E behavior occurs in that session as well.
