Hello there, I'm using Arch Linux with KDE 4.1.1 and I'm trying to set up keyboard shortcuts outside KDE's broken shortcuts manager.
I'm using xbindkeys for things like volume up/down/mute, multimedia things and opening apps and wmctrl for toggling the desktop view on/off.

I wanted to set a shortcut to open the Application Launcher (that K menu) at the bottom left with no sucess.

In KDE 3.x, I found ppl using
But when I try this, I get a "call failed", maybe because DCOP has been replaced by D-Bus in KDE 4.

Any suggestions? Maybe an dbus-send equivalent to that dcop command.


Thanks in advance!

From dbus-monitor I caught this while pressing Alt + F1 (which is the default shortcut for launching the application lanucher)

signal sender=:1.2 -> dest=(null destination) path=/KdedGlobalAccel; interface=org.kde.KdedGlobalAccel; member=invokeAction
array [
string "plasma"
string "Activate Application Launcher Widget"
string "Plasma Workspace"
string "Application Launcher"
]
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signal sender=:1.2 -> dest=(null destination) path=/modules/kdedglobalaccel; interface=org.kde.KdedGlobalAccel; member=invokeAction
array [
string "plasma"
string "Activate Application Launcher Widget"
string "Plasma Workspace"
string "Application Launcher"
]
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So I tried

# dbus-send --type=signal /KdedGlobalAccel org.kde.kded.KdedGlobalAccel.invokeAction array:string:"plasma","Activate Application Launcher Widget","Plasma Workspace","Application Launcher"

The dbus-monitor showed

signal sender=:1.251 -> dest=(null destination) path=/KdedGlobalAccel; interface=org.kde.kded.KdedGlobalAccel; member=invokeAction
array [
string "plasma"
string "Activate Application Launcher Widget"
string "Plasma Workspace"
string "Application Launcher"
]


But no App launcher popup...

What am I missing? Any ideas?

I'm using xbindkeys for things like volume up/down/mute, multimedia things and opening apps and wmctrl for toggling the desktop view on/off.

Not sure if you're answering me or just repeating like in your other posts...

Anyway, I fixed that by directly editing the plasma-appletsrc file at ~/.kde4/share/config