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swampdog

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Tuesday, March 13th 2007, 7:56pm

kmenuedit - cannot reassign shortcut

Error:
The key Alt+Ctrl+F can not be used here because it is already in use.

I know "why". During a gentoo update to kde 3.5.2 many of my Kmenu items vanished. I have a number of shortcuts in limbo like this. It would seem that the existence of the older shortcuts got carried across but not their Kmenu entries.

Is there a file I can edit to purge these old shortcuts?

TIA

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Tuesday, March 13th 2007, 9:17pm

you can try to rename/delete the directories ~/.local and ~/.kde/share/applnk and restart KDE
With some luck, most of the wrong entries in your kmenu are gone and others appear in the menu again.
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Wednesday, March 14th 2007, 8:08pm

It didn't work I'm afraid. First thing I did after restarting kde was to try the menu editor was run the menu editor but it still knew about the old shortcut.

Any other suggestions?

If I knew what to grep for (or even the name of the sourcecode file) I'm stubbon enough to persist!

TIA

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Friday, May 4th 2007, 8:00am

I had the same problem as you, and found the hidden blocked shortcut (Win+J) here:
~/.kde/share/config/khotkeysrc
In my case it looked like this:

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[Data_1_5]
Comment=
Enabled=true
Name=K Menu - eclipse-3.2-eclipse-sdk-3.2.desktop
Type=MENUENTRY_SHORTCUT_ACTION_DATA

[Data_1_5Actions]
ActionsCount=1

[Data_1_5Actions0]
CommandURL=eclipse-3.2-eclipse-sdk-3.2.desktop
Type=MENUENTRY

[Data_1_5Conditions]
Comment=
ConditionsCount=0

[Data_1_5Triggers]
Comment=Simple_action
TriggersCount=1

[Data_1_5Triggers0]
Key=Win+J
Type=SHORTCUT

I removed all that code, saved the file and assigned my new key in menu editor!

Good stuff, eh? :-)

Remember to not have the menu editor open while you edit the file.
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This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "cewan" (May 4th 2007, 8:33am)