KDE Control Center - Keys: Configuration of the Standard Key Bindings.
Description: Help screens for KDE Key Bindings configuration
Keywords: KDE Keys

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### 2. Configuration of the Standard Key Bindings.

( This page documents the older standard Key configuration scheme; it will be removed once the new scheme is fully tested)

This screen configures the key bindings that provide "Standard shortcuts" to a set of common "Actions" that can be taken by many KDE applications. (A "Key binding" programs a special key, or combination of keys, to initiate an action by an application.)

When the Standard Key Binding configuration window first opens, your current key bindings are displayed in the Action list box in the center of the screen.

To change a particular key binding, click on the corresponding action to highlight it; using the buttons below the Action list box, the following changes can be made:

- Press "No key" to remove the key binding.
- Press "Default key" to select the KDE default key binding. (This button will only be enabled if there is a KDE default key binding for this action.)
- Press "Custom key" to use your own choice of key binding. Your chosen key may be combined with one or more of the SHIFT, CTRL, or ALT shift keys, by pressing the corresponding button. Click on the representation of a key in the lower right of the screen to activate it, and type the desired key on your keyboard. If the key binding you select is invalid, or is in conflict with another key binding, you will be warned, and the change will not be made.

Click on Apply at the bottom of the screen to replace the currently used key bindings with those shown in the Action list box.

Click on OK to do this and also close the key binding configuration window.

Click on Default to restore all the default KDE standard shortcut key bindings.

Click on Cancel to close the key binding configuration window with no further changes.

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