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List:       kde-linux
Subject:    [kde-linux] Binding user-generated text to an unused KDE keybinding
From:       Bruce Miller <subscribe () brmiller ! ca>
Date:       2008-08-23 23:10:24
Message-ID: 657001.41138.qm () web88308 ! mail ! re4 ! yahoo ! com
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It would make my Web surfing more productive to use the keyboard more and to use the \
mouse less. In order to do that, I would like to set up "hotkeys" or "macro" keys. I \
have four desktops in my KDE4.1 and the keystrokes to cycle through them are Ctl-1 \
through Ctl-4. This suggests that I could assign eight hotkeys to Ctl-5 through \
Ctl-12 inclusive.

I tend to use Firefox more than Konqueror but am looking for a solution that works in \
both, i.e. that avoids yet another Firefox extension which would not offer any \
functionality in Konqueror anyway.

The nature of task that I am looking for is, for example, to program "Complete \
story\n" to Ctl-5 so that I can quickly get into a news article on Linux Today.

I would have thought that this might be possible through System Settings |Computer \
Administration |Keyboard & Mouse |Keyboard Shortcuts | Configuration of keybindings. \
But that dialogue presents a loooong list of predefined keybindings and offers no \
clue on how to add new ones.

Please forgive me if this or a similar question has recently come up on this list. A \
quick check on Google suggests that it has not. I have just returned to this list \
                after an absence of almost five years (and  back then, it had a \
                different name :-) ).
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Bruce Miller
Ottawa ON, Canada
bruce@xymiller.ca where xy stands for the first two letters of my given name (and, \
coincidentally, the initials of my given name and middle name) (613) 745-1151
This message is from a webmail login and not from my regular mail system. It does not \
have my customary digital signature.

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