(first of all, thanks for the help) Duncan wrote: >> % qdbus org.kde.kglobalaccel /component/kwin \ >> org.kde.kglobalaccel.Component.isActive >> true > > You can also check to see if there's a kglobalaccel app running. Yup it is runinng: % pgrep -lf kglobal 2197 kdeinit4: kdeinit4: kglobalaccel If I kill it, the "qdbus" query above then fails. If I run it again, it gets back to working (though it's then different in pgrep output as it's kinda standalone and not launched by kdeinit4). > PID TTY TIME CMD > 2195 ? 00:00:00 kglobalaccel 2195 vs 2197, what a chance. =) > I don't know if freebsd uses split or monolithic kde packages but here on > Gentoo, it's split packages, and I have both kglobalaccel and khotkeys > installed as part of larger meta-packages. Just the same on FreeBSD: % pkg_info -W /usr/local/kde4/bin/kglobalaccel [...] was installed by package kdebase-runtime-4.5.5 % pkg_info -W /usr/local/kde4/lib/kde4/kded_khotkeys.so [...] was installed by package kdebase-workspace-4.5.5 > Talking about which... have you tried creating a fresh user, without an > existing kde config (or from the command line without kde running, simply > move the test user's kde config, usually ~/.kde or the like, out of the > way, so a new, blank one is created for testing, when you start kde)? Oh, right. I tried that just now: "mv .kde4 .kde4.bak" creates a new profile which does NOT show the problem: hotkeys work correctly. I then did: % mv .kde4.bak .kde4 % rm .kde4/share/config/khotkeysrc % rm .kde4/share/config/kglobalshortcutsrc ...nothing changed. What other configuration stuff is involved in hotkey managing? Keyboard layout maybe? I guess not... but I'm using compose:rwin, FWIW. cheers, -- Lapo Luchini - http://lapo.it/ ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.