Keyboard shortcut for applications menu

[Jonas Norlander]

2009/1/29 Alexander Smirnov <alexander.v.smirnov at gmail.com>:
> seems everyone here is using mouse and have never faced with shortcut
> failure :)
>
>
> Alexander Smirnov wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> i'm using kubuntu 8.04 (with KDE3.5.10).
>> impressed by kickoff in kde4(on another machine), I installed
>> tastymenu to kde3.
>> After some time i decided to move back to standard menu.
>> I removed tastymenu applet and  added "K menu" to my kicker, but for
>> some reason it didn't open when i press ALT+F1 shortcut.
>>
>> I tried to change shortcut in "system settings" to something else -
>> but that didn't work either :(
>>
>>
>> any ideas?
>

I would try to reset the config file for shortcuts. In 8.10 I have
~/.kde/share/config/kglobalshortcutsrc and
~/.kde/share/config/khotkeysrc.
Make a backup of them then delete them and logout and login.

/ Jonas