| Edit system wide keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures |
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Here you edit settings for input actions, including mouse gestures.
Here you can configure the keyboard shortcuts for a number of actions common to many applications. This includes actions such as Open, Save, Close, Cut, Copy, Paste, Find, and many more.
Global keyboard shortcuts are used to interface with applications that do not display an interface. Settings for such shortcuts are edited here.
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| This section was written for KDE SC version 4.4.4. In KDE SC version 4.5 and later, the layout and organization of the system settings modules has changed somewhat. However, apart from a little moving around of some dialog elements this section should still be valid |
The place where you start is (in KDE SC 4.5 it is )
In the bottom left corner of the window there is a button. Make sure that the checkbox is checked. Set the timout as you see fit. The mouse button might be different for you, I chose 3 for using the right mouse button. If you want input actions to be enabled automatically, check the "Start the input Actions daemon on login" above.
Also to have any gestures working you need to have the individual gestures themself enabled.
Right click on the left pane (in an empty area under the list of action groups) and choose , rename that group to "Mouse Gestures" and check the checkbox attached to its name.
From now on I will assume that the new group is called "Mouse Gestures". Right click on and choose (here there are three options but I didn't manage to work with "Send Keyboard Input") using "Command/URL" or "D-Bus Command" you will need to create a gesture and bind an action to it.
Click on your and select the tab. in the bottom of the screen there is an button (click it). In the box that just opened draw your gesture using the left mouse button.
if you chose simply enter that command/url under the tab at the field.
This command will let you close the next window you mouse click on.
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Command/URL: wmctrl -c :SELECT:
to close the active window
Command/URL: wmctrl -c :ACTIVE:
This command will display a translation of the current clipboard content.
Command/URL: kdialog --title "Translation" --msgbox "`xclip -o | translate -f en -t he -`"
Replace 'en' and 'he' with the desired source and destination language, if you are not sure, a full list of language codes is available from the ISO 639-2 list.
If you chose D-Bus, here are few examples.
Finding out what to fill where, is done with the help of the "Launch D-Bus Browser", using that browser you can find what method you wish to call in what application object. Using D-Bus we need to fill some fields, the field name will be regular and the content italic.
This will display the Runner dialog.
Remote Application: org.kde.krunner
Remote Object: /App
Function: org.kde.krunner.App.display
Remote Application: org.mpris.audacious
Remote Object: /Player
Function: org.freedesktop.MediaPlayer.Next (replace Next with Prev/Pause/Stop/Play/Repeat)
If not playing will play, if playing will pause.
Remote Application: org.mpris.audacious
Remote Object: /org/atheme/audacious
Function: org.atheme.audacious.PlayPause
display the actions pop-up. (I am using that to search and translate words)
Remote Application: org.kde.klipper
Remote Object: /klipper
Function: org.kde.klipper.klipper.showKlipperManuallyInvokeActionMenu
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