Is there a bug with Alt+Keys in KDE???

[locke_as16]

I'm not sure, but me and some friends that have installed compiz got disconfigured the alt+keys after enabling compiz in kde. For example, the Alt+F2 key to run a command doesn't work anymore. is this a bug?? or can it be fixed??.

Thx for the replies

[Aldoo]

On my PC, I need to be using kde-window-decorator to have it working. (it won't work with either emerald or gtk-window-decorator).

There is something I don't understand. I thought it was kdesktop who was listening to that key combo !!!?!! Indeed it won't work if kdesktop is not loaded !

How come we need several apps for a hot key to work ?

[enigma_0Z]

Actually, (this is just an educated guess, but) I believe that kicker is a subprocess of kdesktop, and most of the ALT+whatever keyboard shortcuts come from kicker (ALT+F1 for menu, ALT+F2 for run, etc)...

But it seems that kwin does indeed need to run to "register" the keyboard hooks. What I do, in this case, is let kwin launch, and then after the fact, run compiz --replace from ~/.kde/Autostart/ . Then you can configure compiz to launch a decorator if no other one is running (to launch emerald, for instance)... The only issue here is that sometimes tray icons don't get put in the tray, but this is not usually the case.