KDE: shortcut for "give me application X"

[Farid Ansari]

Hi All,
Today is 19th April 2007.
Is the Kubuntu 7.04 being released ?
Please advise.
Thanks & Regards,

Farid

On 4/19/07, Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net> wrote:
>
> G'day.
>
> I am trying to figure out if it is possible to achieve a bit of UI that
> I would like in my KDE session:  I want a "give me application X" key
> sequence.
>
> My use case is essentially this:
>
> I want to hit control-enter to give me a calculator.  I want this to
> work from anywhere, no matter what, and to act like this:
>
>   If I hit the keys and the calculator application isn't running, start
>   it up.
>
>   If I hit the keys and it /is/ running then bring it to the current
>   desktop, on top, and give it focus.
>
> What I absolutely do not want is:
>
>   If I hit the keys and it isn't running nothing happens.
>
>   If I hit the keys and it is running a second copy starts up.
>
>
> Sadly, though, I can't work out how to achieve this with KDE:
>
> If I set a global shortcut on the application I get the second bad
> behaviour: it starts a new copy of the application even if one is
> already running.
>
> If I set a shortcut key to jump to the application I can't have it
> automatically started.
>
>
> Annoyingly, a few applications do the right thing.  I presume this is
> because they have their own special internal support for detecting a
> running instance and activating that rather than starting a second copy.
> (...and, no, the calculator isn't one of them.  Darn it.)
>
>
> So, is there any way to achieve this nice, modal behaviour?
>
> Extra bonus points go to anyone who can supply a third behaviour here:
>
>   If I hit the keys, it is running and it has focus then hide or
>   minimize the application.
>
> That way I can have a "pop-up" calculator, terminal session and the
> couple of other "global" applications that I sometimes want to use from
> whatever else I am in the middle of.
>
> Regards,
>         Daniel
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