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Just annotations of little "how to's", so I know I can find how to do something I've already done when I need to do it again, in case I don't remember anymore, which is not unlikely. Hopefully they can be useful to others, but I can't guarantee that it will work, or that it won't even make things worse.
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If you're on Openbox WM/DE/"no-DE" and sometimes KDE stuff comes up all of a sudden in response to keybindings...

Posted 07-11-2023 at 08:32 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Something you've done or some upgrade is triggering or auto-starting kglobalaccel5.

It somehow takes precedence over Openbox' own keybindings, and will bring up random/sometimes coincidentally related KDE/Plasma program, set by default (or not) to the same keybindings.

It can perhaps be triggered by some "random" KDE programs you start, I guess depending on environment variables and whatnot. Besides eventually being set up in some kind of xdg-autostart thing...
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You CAN use kdialog "getfilename" to choose a directory, contrarily to some tutorials around

Posted 08-06-2021 at 09:06 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 08-17-2022 at 11:38 AM by the dsc (GrAmm3r ][)
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dir=$(kdialog --getopenfilename "${defdir:-$PWD}" 'inode/directory' --title "Please choose the directory you want") ; cd ${dir}
I like it more than the "--getexistingdirectory" alternative (or zenity/gnome) which uses a system wide directory tree where you have to click on the tiny arrows or plus/minus icons to their left in order to open or close them, if you double click them hoping to enter, as you would on other file/directory navigation dialogs (or...
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