I am doing some web work again. I am accustomed to using shortcuts to add HTML pairs, e.g.,
with 4 back-strokes. I would bind this to something like alt-r. Some of these get very complex with multiple styles and attributes, which is why I want the shortcut.
- First of all, it seems that one can no longer send keyboard input via a shortcut. Is that functionality somewhere else?
- Secondly, a shortcut to launch a script does not work. ~/bin/script via ctr-8 does nothing at all.
I am using the GUI interface from settings for shortcuts. None of the options are ambiguous (I have been using KDE since Redhat 7.x). And, yes, I am clicking on “Apply”. Nothing. Zip.
Hey - interesting problem. I think you might be running into changes that came with newer KDE Plasma versions: I heard that the old “send keyboard input” style custom shortcuts (and script-launch shortcuts via GUI) aren’t always working anymore because the underlying shortcut system changed. A few things you could try if you haven’t already-
- Check if the daemon kglobalacceld (or on older Plasma installs kglobalaccel5) is actually running — shortcuts won’t trigger if it’s not active.
- Try creating a new shortcut via Settings → Shortcuts → Add New → Command or Script instead of “send keyboard input” — some users say launching scripts works this way even if text-input shortcuts don’t.
- If nothing works, test with a fresh user profile (or a new user account) — that can tell whether the issue is with your config or a system-wide bug.
custom shortcuts was removed for plasma 6
some of that functionality has been restored under the shortcuts settings, but likely not all… and it may never be fully restored (because some ov custom shortcuts was kind of broken to begin with).
as a stop gap, you could try using input remapper which has a lot of functionality, including macro scripting.