Activating extra keyboard keys

Phil phil_lor at bigpond.com
Fri May 8 00:24:56 UTC 2015


On 07/05/15 17:55, Nils Kassube wrote:
> | Navigate to "K-menu" -> "System Settings" -> "Shortcuts and Gestures"
> | -> "Custom Shortcuts". Right-click in the "Name" area and select "New"
> | -> "Global Shortcut" -> "Command/URL". Type a name for the shortcut
> | like "Calculator" and replace the "Comment" if you want. Then click
> | the "Trigger" tab. Click at the "Shortcut" button which is labeled
> | "None" and press the special key to trigger the action. Then click the
> | "Action" tab and enter the command to start the calculator -
> | "kcalc --caption KCalc" (without quotes) should work. Finally click
> | "Apply" and test if it works.
>
> I haven't tried this with 15.04 though, maybe it works different with
> plasma5.
>

Thanks Nils, I haven't made sense of this so far and Google hasn't been 
of any assistance in this case.

-- 
Regards,
Phil




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