{"id":300,"date":"2017-03-07T21:39:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T20:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/?p=300"},"modified":"2017-03-07T22:39:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T21:39:58","slug":"kglobalaccel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"KGlobalAccel"},"content":{"rendered":"

This definitely merits a post. While working on my Qt Audio Player (BeetPlayer<\/a>), I wanted control it via the Media Keys of my Keyboard. Since I’m using KDE on Linux, I quickly found out about KGlobalAccel.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, there’s no decent documentation available. The\u00a0API docs<\/a>\u00a0are kinda useless, and there’s no tutorial available, at least not with my Google foo, so here is how it works:<\/p>\n

First and foremost, set QObject::objectName() for the QAction you want to register. It should be unique!<\/p>\n

Don’t forget to change your CMake file or your .pro-File if you’re using qmake.<\/p>\n

Then register a shortcut with\u00a0KGlobalAccel::self()->setShortcut() like this:<\/p>\n

QAction *muteA = new QAction(QIcon(\":\/mute.png\"), tr(\"Mute\"), this); \r\nmuteA->setObjectName(\"beetPlayerMute\"); \r\nconnect(muteA, SIGNAL(triggered(bool)), this, SLOT(mute(bool))); \r\nKGlobalAccel::self()->setShortcut(muteA, QList<QKeySequence>() << QKeySequence(Qt::Key_VolumeMute), KGlobalAccel\r\n::Autoloading);<\/pre>\n
After that launch KDE System Settings->Shortcuts->Global Shortcuts. There should be an entry for your Application. Select it and set the shortcut. Haven’t figured out how a default shortcut, but it doesn’t really matter when it shows up there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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