[solved] error with hotkey to launch konsole?

[chconnor]

Hi - a bit baffled at the difficulty of this, but I go to System Settings -> Configure Hotkey settings and set the "Run Konsole" option to ctrl-alt-T, Command/URL is "konsole" and I get the error:

KDEInit could not launch '/home/myname/bin/em-txt'.

...now, I must have set up some ~/bin/em-txt thing in the past (~/bin/ has some other scripts i actually do use), but i have no memory of this. I'm assuming some KDE config file is tweaked and i need to clean it up... any web links or pointers on where to look next? Is there some other hotkey interceptor that is set to this location?

I thought it might fix itself with my recent upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04... no change.

Thanks a million,
-c

[jankushka]

Re: simple: hotkey to launch konsole?

$ grep -Hrni "run konsole" .kde
...
.kde/share/config/kglobalshortcutsrc:39:{25c339ab-1ea1-4731-a7dd-8bf8e3b35db6}=Ctrl+Alt+T,none,Run Konsole
.kde/share/config/khotkeysrc:517:Name=Run Konsole

hth

[chconnor]

Re: simple: hotkey to launch konsole?

Thanks for that...

perhaps oddly, perhaps not, I see:

~$ grep -Hrni "run konsole" .kde
.kde/share/config/kglobalshortcutsrc:44:{7de6e701-458e-416d-85cc-7c24c6650e05}=Ctrl+Alt+T,none,Run Konsole
.kde/share/config/kglobalshortcutsrc:70:{7de6e701-458e-416d-85cc-7c24c6650e05}=none,Ctrl+Alt+T,Run Konsole
.kde/share/config/khotkeysrc:90:Name=Run Konsole                             
...

Anyway, I'm thinking that this "/home/<myusername>/bin/em-txt" might be configured somewhere in the konsole or kde configs? Any ideas on where to find that? I've grepped around for "em-txt" in various directories, but I can never figure out where the heck all the kde directories are in the first place. No sign yet of that value, though. Grepped in /usr/share/kde4 and /usr/share/applications and /etc/kde4 and ~/.kde...

Maybe this is interesting: I made a script in ~/bin/em-txt:

#!/bin/sh
echo Hello there

...then, hitting the hot-key causes a Konsole app-starting-up-indicator-icon to appear below my mouse pointer for a few seconds, but no Konsole starts (confirmed by watching ps output).

I mean, it sounds like at some point in the hazy past I configured the system to point to this script instead of the actual konsole app, for whatever reason, but I can't figure out where that configuration is... I don't know if it's a ".desktop" file or where such things might be stored...

Any thoughts?

And, in case it matters, running "konsole" from an open konsole gives this before opening normally:

konsole(8011) Konsole::KeyboardTranslatorReader::readNext: Command """" not understood.
konsole(8011): Attempt to use QAction "change-profile" with KXMLGUIFactory!

If I could just figure out where to search for em-txt... :-)

Thanks a lot!
-C

[chconnor]

[solved] hotkey to launch konsole?

Got it:

~/.local/share/applications/kde4/konsole.desktop

had the line:

Exec=~/bin/em-txt

...changed it to

Exec=/usr/bin/konsole

And all is well.

If anyone knows how/where that is configured through GUI i'd love to know. Maybe i tweaked it by hand back then.

There sure are a lot of kde directories all over the place. But i trust there's a good reason. :-)

Thanks,
-C