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Episode: 4413
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Title: HPR4413: KDE custom shortcuts are easy and useful
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4413/hpr4413.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-26 00:24:39
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4,413 for Wednesday 2 July 2025.
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Today's show is entitled, KDE Custom Shortcuts Are Easy and Useful.
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It is hosted by GemLog, and is about 5 minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is, the episode describes how to access the custom shortcuts and KDE desktop
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things you can do.
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GemLog again.
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This could be quite a short recording, really, because on the one hand it is kind of trivial
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to do.
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On a KDE desktop, but on the other hand, it is so very, very useful that if you are not
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doing it, you really should be, I think.
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If you go to the system settings in the main menu for KDE and scroll down, you can get
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to shortcuts, and under shortcuts, there is a thing called custom shortcuts, and you
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can do anything you want in here, and you can attach it to anything.
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For example, one of my very common things is I use what I still call the left omega key,
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although it is Windows.
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I use the left meta key, maybe, the, anyway, that left Windows key plus K to load up
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Kate, because I need Kate all the time, and I need it with different configurations and
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save bookmarks and stuff like that.
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Another thing that I use the shortcuts for is typing characters that don't belong to
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my keyboard.
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I always have my keyboard set to EU, because that is mostly what I need, but there are
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still some characters missing.
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I miss me, which is to say, move in the Greek alphabet.
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I miss the degree key, actually a degree key somewhere else, but I forgot where it is.
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Pi, I need to post Pi sometimes, but I also got here.
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Oh, the Welsh, W with a hat, need that sometimes, I need the O with a tick, I need the E with
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a right tick, I need the E with a left tick, and some other things were there, like vowels
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with unloads and stuff, so I have that.
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Another thing you can do is you can tell it to run programs, depending on what key.
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So, oh, wait, to go back, for typing weird characters, I echo the character, echo-n,
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the character, pipe to x-clip, dash-sl-clip, so I use x-clip, but I'm given to understand
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that Wayland will have the same functionality, but I don't know how to use it.
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What else do I do with that?
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In Terro Bang, yeah, that's just an extra thing.
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Oh, share URL.
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Yeah, you can call KD to connect CLI.
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I make it do things with x-clip, you can do that.
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I use it to pull up a calculator.
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I just use left meta 1 as in 1, 2, 3.
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Just pull that up.
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I pull up K right with a slightly different version of the thing that I pull up KT,
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spectacle, edit the clipboard.
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Oh, converter now, I love converter now.
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It's so excellent.
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I mostly use it for currencies, but if you don't know converter now, you should go grab it.
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And yeah, I use the left meta plus C for that.
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Oh, I use it to resize screens, and I'll just go use it for.
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Oh, I just attached everything.
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GQRX, RGB, the things you can trigger are just endless.
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Really?
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So now I'm dabbling.
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I'm sorry.
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So anyway, I hope some of you found that useful at least.
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Thanks very much.
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License.
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