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Glutanimate
Asked: 2017-09-22 13:36:29 +0800 CST

Assigning keyboard shortcuts to KDE Dolphin service menus

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Is there any way I can assign a keyboard shortcut to a custom service menu I've added to Dolphin? The options menu for keyboard assignments does not seem to show any service menu actions, nor have I managed to find a a .desktop entry key that would allow me to set a hotkey.

I know that GNOME's Nautilus uses a hidden accels file to allow users to set up custom key bindings. Does a similar option exist for Dolphin, perhaps?

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  1. Best Answer

    By my knowledge

    It is not possible to start a KDE Service Menu (context menu) with a keyboard shortcut. This is based on:

    The Dolphin is using KDE Framework 5 KIO FileItemActions: https://api.kde.org/frameworks/kio/html/classKFileItemActions.html :

    Detailed Description

    This class creates and handles the actions for a url (or urls) in a popupmenu.

    This includes:

    • "open with " actions, but also
    • builtin services like mount/unmount for old-style device desktop files
    • user-defined actions for a .desktop file, defined in the file itself (see the desktop entry standard)
    • servicemenus actions, defined in .desktop files and selected based on the mimetype of the url

    Dolphin source files:

    Quote:

    /**
 * @brief Represents the context menu which appears when doing a right
 *        click on an item or the viewport of the file manager.
 *

    Sort of workaround with the Dolphin button shortcuts

    The KDE Forums has a topic 'Play All Media Button for Dolphin': https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=223&t=140139 . It shows how to patch the Dolphin sources to add extra buttons to the Dolphin toolbar. The Dolphin buttons can have the keyboard shortcut.

    Wishes/patches

    You could file a wish at the https://bugs.kde.org .

    Patches and the review requests can be added to the KDE's instance of Phabricator: https://phabricator.kde.org/ .

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  2. I don't know what distro you use, but this is for Kubuntu (and works for other distros of course):

    You can simulate right click with xdotool and map it to your custom shortcut (for me Shift-F10).

    Here is how. First, install xdotool utility:

    sudo apt install xdotool

    Then add a new shortcut in Custom Shortcuts. Set trigger to whatever (shortcut) you like (for ex. Shift-F10). Set action to:

    xdotool key 135

    (135 is keycode of "Menu-key")

    Works for Dolphin 17.12.

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