[SOLVED] Keyboard shortcuts

[bill-lancaster]

Yesterday I accidentally set mouse left click to minimise windows and now can't find how to change it.
There are four applications that relate to keyboard shortcuts but none of them enable me to undo what I did.
Please, any advice would be welcome.

[dmeyer]

Well thats hilarious. Nonethleless, logout then just slam out Alt+Ctrl+F1. Login via the console. Now you have the easy or the hard route.

Easy route:

rm ~/.kde4/share/config/kglobalshortcutsrc
rm ~/.kde4/share/config/khotkeysrc
rm ~/.kde/share/config/kglobalshortcutsrc
rm ~/.kde/share/config/khotkeysrc

This will delete all your hotkeys and shortcuts that you have set-up. Ignore any file non-existant stuff. That might happen. I use openSUSE and we use ".kde4" and I think Kubunutu uses ".kde" so don't stress any errors.

Hard route:

nano ~/.kde4/share/config/kglobalshortcutsrc
nano ~/.kde4/share/config/khotkeysrc
nano ~/.kde/share/config/kglobalshortcutsrc
nano ~/.kde/share/config/khotkeysrc

Manually edit these plaintext files! This is not fun and will most likely end up worsening the situation if you don't know what you are doing. P.S. Same ".kde4/.kde" rule applies.

[bill-lancaster]

Thanks dmeyer, had a look at the 'Hard Route' and couldn't see anything relevant so I went the 'Easy Route'.
There were no files in ~/.kde4/ but those in ~/.kde/ were deleted - left-mouse button still minimises windows!

[dmeyer]

I have a suscpicion that you never actually deleted the file. I suspect that it was recreated somehow. Did you logout before you did the deleting and then switch to the tty? If you don't do it right then the file gets recreated.

[bill-lancaster]

Oh Dear! Running the rm code again produces 'No such file or directory'. Unwanted shortcut still present although all my other custom shortcuts have gone.

[dmeyer]

Where did you set this shortcut? Its an incredibly weird shortcut to have set and I didn't even know you could set something like this. Explain in detail how you set this shortcut.

[bill-lancaster]

I've tried all the available setting and can't find which application let me do this. I do remember that there was an option for 'left mouse button'.
I'll keep looking!

[bill-lancaster]

Ah! Found it!
'Configure Windows Behaviour', under 'Titlebar & Frame'/Active, there's the option for left button. I've now set it to 'Nothing' - problem solved.
Sorry to have troubled you with this and thanks a lot for your help

[Goeroeboeroe]

I have no idea if this is where you''ve made the change, but there's a setting for minimizing windows with left click.
The only way to find that menu I know is:
Open an application. Click on the icon in the upper left corner and choose more actions -> Settings window manager -> Actions -> Left mouse button
I've a Dutch system, so maybe in English the names are a bit different.
If you can't open the menu behind the icon because you can't click, alt+F3 is a shortcut..

Ah, you solved it. Your post crossed mine.