Plasma Global Shortkeys

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Problem

One of my preferred shortkeys coming from windows is the Windows + I key combo. This opens up the system settings. I find it’s lacking in default Plasma. Along with this shortkey, I would like to add global shortkeys that open up specific web urls.

Solution

After some digging I found the shortkey setting to open up the settings. It’s located at Workspace > Shortcuts > System Settings > Display Configuration.

Open Settings Global Shortkey

In the same menu, I can manually add commands to open up links in my browser.

firefox https://gmail.com

Then I can set their shortkey in the corresponding subsetting window.

Custom shortkey

After some more digging I found that these shortkeys are listed in

~/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc

[firefox-2.desktop]
_k_friendly_name=firefox https://gmail.com
_launch=Meta+Ctrl+Alt+Shift+G,none,firefox https://gmail.com

[firefox-3.desktop]
_k_friendly_name=firefox https://trade.poe.com
_launch=Meta+Ctrl+Alt+Shift+T,none,firefox https://trade.poe.com

[firefox-4.desktop]
_k_friendly_name=firefox https://avoamps.atlassian.net/jira/software/c/projects/AVO/boards/6
_launch=Meta+Ctrl+Alt+Shift+J,none,firefox https://avoamps.atlassian.net/jira/software/c/projects/AVO/boards/6

[firefox-5.desktop]
_k_friendly_name=firefox https://avoaudio.github.io/
_launch=Meta+Ctrl+Alt+Shift+A,none,firefox https://avoaudio.github.io/

[firefox-6.desktop]
_k_friendly_name=firefox https://calendar.google.com
_launch=Meta+Ctrl+Alt+Shift+C,none,firefox https://calendar.google.com

[firefox-7.desktop]
_k_friendly_name=firefox https://passwords.google.com
_launch=Meta+Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P,none,firefox https://passwords.google.com

I’m going to keep an active list here for my reference in case I ever need to migrate OSes in the future.