Yesterday I have installed the latest F30 from the KDE Live media onto my laptop, and so far it works great. The only problem I have is the functionality of the "menu" key (sitting in between the AltGr and right Ctrl keys on my keyboard).
Apparently, pressing that key gives a popup menu at the position of the mouse pointer, as if I have pressed the right mouse button. In my usecase, this behavior is useless (I use two-finger tap on the touchpad to invoke that menu), so I want to reassign the menu key to do something else (such as opening the KDE application menu or whatever else).
However, if I try to assign that key to any shortcut, instead of capturing the keypress, the popup menu appears instead.
My google-fu failed me, since searching for anything involving "menu key" brings up a bunch of hits describing how to assign some key to open a menu, instead of talking about the menu key.
The only relevant suggestion I found was to reassign the keycode of the menu key to some nonexisting regular key like F13, using xmodmap. But this seems to be a kludge, and I'm wondering if there is a "proper" way in Plasma to configure the behavior of the menu key.
This issue is a reappearance of an old bug [1] from 2008, which seems to have been resolved in 2015, but apparently regressed again in the meantime.
Any suggestions?
TIA, :-) Marko
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Marko Vojinovic