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Thursday, June 26th 2008, 1:24pm

How to override Standard Application key-binding?

Dear Forum,

In kde3, it was very easy and comfortable to assign a keyboard shortcut. If the sought shortcut was already used by another application or for another purpose, a warning would be issued and one would be asked if they would still like to enforce their new key-binding.

Now in kde4, I am being told that if my choice is already used for something else, then I can't go on with it.

Namely, I want Ctrl+arrows to switch desktops, because it is something I need all the time and am used to do this way since years (back to the pre-kde, fwmv time), whereas I never need the "next word completion" or "go to next line break" that they are assigned to by default.

If in the "System Settings", "keyboard shortcuts" I try to define this key-binding to my taste, I get stuck with:

"The 'Ctrl+Down' key combination has already been allocated to the
standard action "NextCompletion" that many applications use. You
cannot use it for global shortcuts for this reason."

And seemingly nothing to be done. What is the way out? Can this be overridden by fiddling with the config files, or by a more remote configuration panel?

Best,

Fabrice.

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