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How to disable Ctrl+Alt+Left/Right on KDE?

Super User Asked by José Roberto Araújo Júnior on November 29, 2021

I need Ctrl+Alt+ (Left/Right) to be bound to IntelliJ IDEA but something is preventing the combination to reach IDEA. I searched everywhere but I only found information about Gnome and Ubuntu, I’m using KDE with CentOS.

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+ (Left/Right) are also blocked by something that I don’t know and it’s really slowing me down.

I think I’m using KDE4 because I see some kde4 commands in terminal.

Output of kde4-config --version:

Qt: 4.8.7
KDE Development Platform: 4.14.8
kde4-config: 1.0

One Answer

I suggest taking a look at JuK or other music players, as music players commonly use Ctrl+Alt+ (Left/Right) to switch to next or previous tracks. At least that solves my problem.

The Kwin desktop switching has no default keybindings on my machine (I'm using KDE Plasma 5 on Arch Linux and it might be different from KDE4)

For KDE, you can view all registered Global Keyboard Shortcuts through the following process: Settings -> System Settings -> Shortcuts and Gestures -> Global Keyboard Shortcuts. You can check there to see which program is using this key binding.

Also, as a last resort (if you still cannot find what program is using the key combination), you can change the IntelliJ IDEA keymap. Say, redefining the navigation keybinding to Shift+Alt+ (Left/Right) and see if that works for you.

Answered by Ye Shu on November 29, 2021

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