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.
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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?
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
Gotta love those legacy paradigms. Thanks for the link!
The Alt key is Alt. Why would it need another label?
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.
KDE calls “super” “meta” for some reason.
In emacs that is what those keys are called
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
No they are interchangeable
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.
I never saw the Alt key referred to as anything else than Alt
On MacOS it is option or something
I was struggling with this before only to find out you need to press apply before it to work.
