Apparently, importing ~/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc is enough for the shortcut to show up in the System Settings, but not enough to load the shortcut. Disabling, applying and re-enabling and applying again also doesn't help, and neither does re-assigning to the same shortcut, which resulted in this lovely error dialog.
Windows-coded error
21 Comments
humanamerican@lemmy.zip · 41 pts · 213d
I thought "meta" referred to the Alt key and "super" referred to the key that usually has the Winblows logo on it. Was I wrong or is the terminology just inconsistent?
lemmyng@piefed.ca · 30 pts · 213d
This 15 year old post on AskUbuntu explains the differences between those keys, and their historical background: https://askubuntu.com/questions/19558/what-are-the-meta-super-and-hyper-keys
humanamerican@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 213d
Gotta love those legacy paradigms. Thanks for the link!
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 16 pts · 213d
The Alt key is Alt. Why would it need another label?
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 11 pts · 213d
There's quite a long convoluted history to key names. In the early days there were META1...META4... which were typically assigned to SHIFT, CONTROL, ALTERNATE, COMMAND, OPTION, [OS NAME], and others.
exu@feditown.com · 12 pts · 213d
KDE calls "super" "meta" for some reason.
Euphoma@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 213d
In emacs that is what those keys are called
homes@piefed.world · 3 pts · 213d
Although I’m not sure about that, my first reaction to the super key, not working would be to press other keys like control our alt
boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 213d
No they are interchangeable
humanamerican@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 213d
Well, no, they aren't. Cuz they're two different keys. What you mean is that they're referred to inconsistently, which is bad in a technical discipline.
boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 213d
I never saw the Alt key referred to as anything else than Alt
On MacOS it is option or something
humanamerican@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 213d
Mostly older Linux apps refer to Alt as Meta. But since those apps predate the "Windows key", it seems foolish to also start calling that meta.
boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 213d
Wait there wasnt a Windows key since forever?
humanamerican@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 212d
Computer keyboards have been around since at least the 70s and the Windows key only started appearing on keyboards with the release of Windows 95. I am a child of the 80s and my first 3 or 4 computers had keyboards with no Windows key.
boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 212d
TIL!
But to be honest, that was also pretty much before standardization. I have never seen anyone use Meta for the Alt key.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 21 pts · 213d
This makes me long for the good old days when the See Also section of the Wikipedia article for recursion included a link to recursion
If you want to see humorlessness incarnate, check out the handful of people vehemently opposing reintroducing it on the talk page..
Covenant@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 213d
I was struggling with this before only to find out you need to press apply before it to work.
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 212d
I done tried that 🤷
herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 212d
It is easier to install Linux than to figure out whatever this thing is.
Cloudstash@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 210d