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yakuake package

yakuake keybinding conflict on ibook, powerbook

Bug #3209 reported by John Steele Scott
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yakuake (Debian)
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yakuake (Ubuntu)
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Medium
Martin Meredith

Bug Description

Yakuake binds to the F12 key by default. On an iBook or PowerBook, Ubuntu maps F12 to right-click by default. I am in a catch-22 here: if I could run yakuake by pressing F12, I could change it's keybinding, but I can't do that, because F12 is mapped to the right mouse button.

If you are not prepared to change the default keybinding of yakuake, at least put a README file in /usr/share/doc/yakuake explaining a solution (e.g. I think I could manually change a config file somewhere, but I haven't figured that out yet).

Daniel Holbach (dholbach)
Changed in yakuake:
assignee: nobody → kubuntu-team
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Jonathan Davies (jpds) wrote :

To change the access key, open YaKuake and on the right there's a little arrow pointing down, press it and there's a 'Shortcut' section. There should be a 'Change access key...' option, there you should be able to change the F12 option to whatever you want.

Bug FIXED.

Changed in yakuake:
status: New → Fixed
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Seth Kinast (seth) wrote :

No, that's not fixed. We need to either patch the default accesskey, or provide a readme, as per the reporter's request. Plus, that workaround doesn't work since the reporter cannot open yaKuake anyways.

It seems to me, however, that the insane default here is F12 -> right-click, not F12 -> yaKuake.

Changed in yakuake:
status: Fixed → New
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Jonathan Davies (jpds) wrote :

I've been doing some stuff on this and this may work - add this to your ~/.kde/share/config/yakuakerc:

[Global Shortcuts]
AccessKey=F11

And that should overwrite it.

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Jonathan Davies (jpds) wrote :

A fix is awaiting upload.

yakuake (2.7.3-1ubuntu2) dapper; urgency=low

  * Add patches/kubuntu_01_yakuake.diff to have
    alternate key (Closes: Malone #3209)
  * Bumped compat level and debhelper version.

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Martin Meredith (mez) wrote :

I dont like the thought of having 2 access keys jpatrick.

John - I will add in a readme next time I upload (just finished an upload before I saw this!)

Changed in yakuake:
assignee: kubuntu-team → mez
status: Unconfirmed → In Progress
Martin Meredith (mez)
Changed in yakuake:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)
Changed in yakuake:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Jonathan Jesse (jjesse) wrote :

I see there was apatch or upload on 2006-01-06. Did that upload fix this bug and the status got dropped? Could someone look into this?

Thanks,

Jonathan

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Jonathan Jesse (jjesse) wrote :

Just following up on this bug is this still out there?

Jonathan

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