KDE Control Center - Keys: Configuration of Key Bindings ("Shortcut keys").
Description: Help screens for KDE Key Bindings configuration
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### 1. Configuration of Key Bindings ("Shortcut keys").

This screen configures either the Global or Standard shortcut keys (" Key Bindings"), depending on how you invoked it.

(A "Key binding" programs a special key, or combination of keys, as a shortcut to initiate an action by an application.)

The "Standard shortcut keys" are common to many KDE applications; the Global shortcuts are associated with actions by particular KDE applications, such as the KDE Window Manager (`kwm`).

The key bindings are stored in a "Key Scheme", which may either be the unmodifiable KDE default key scheme, or one of the personal key schemes customized by the user.

- Selecting a Key scheme. Click on an entry in the Key scheme list box in the top left of the screen, and the corresponding key bindings will displayed in the Action list box in the center of the screen.
- The Current Scheme is not a true Key scheme: select it to display the key bindings you are currently using.
- Creating a new Key scheme. To create a new Key scheme, click on Add, and enter the name you choose for it in the dialog box that appears. Its initial key bindings will be those displayed in the Action list box immediately before the new scheme is created.
- Deleting a Key scheme. Click on Remove to delete a Key scheme.
- Making changes to the selected Key scheme. 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.
- Saving changes to the selected Key scheme. After you have made changes to the selected Key binding scheme, the "Save changes" button will become enabled, Click on this button to save your changes; the button will again be disabled until any new changes are made. If you select a different Key scheme before saving your changes, they will be lost.

Note that the "Current" and "KDE default" Key schemes cannot be removed, and changes to them cannot be saved. You can however make changes while these keys schemes are selected, and apply them, or create a new key scheme with them.

Click on Apply at the bottom of the screen to make the selected Key scheme the currently used scheme.

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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