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Use spacebar to check and uncheck checkboxes in KDE

A powerful and necessary keyboard navigation element is the ability to use space bar to check / uncheck checkboxes. How to enable such behaviour for spacebar key in KDE 4.x ?
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Porting KDE keybinding to pure X

I configured nice keybinding in my KDE -- layout change on Ctrl+Del,lvl3 key as Menu and so on. How can port all this binding to commands for X without diving into internals of X? I already did ...
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Keyboard setup in a KVM configuration

I'm using a Fedora 16 notebook and a Windows 7 desktop at work. The notebook stays turned on and closed under the desk and I use the desktop's display and keyboard. To switch between desktop and ...
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1answer
193 views

Increasing keyboard repeat rate in KDE

How can you increase the rate of the keys you are allowed to type in Ubuntu's KDE?
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Keys getting swapped round in KDE

After I run mplayer, the cursor keys on my keyboard get swapped with random keys on my keyboard... Up = Print Left = ISO_Level3_Shift Right = Windows key Down = Nothing Restarting seems to fix the ...
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How to type unicode characters in KDE?

This answer has tips on how to do it on Gnome or Vim, but these don't work on KDE. This bug shows that KDE don't support the ISO notation with Ctrl+Shift plus the character's hex code. Is there any ...
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628 views

keyboard mappings are totally screwed after updating to kde4

I recently upgraded from KDE 3.5 to KDE 4, and I have been having weird issues with my keyboard. In one of the virtual consoles e.g. when I press ctrl + alt 1 , I can type perfectly, but in KDE, ...
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Using ctrl-h for backspace in kde apps

I set up GTK Applications to interpret Ctrl-h as a backspace, Ctrl-u to delete the part of the line before the cursor and Ctrl-w to delete the previous word, by adding the following: ...