Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X: Linux users who use the KDE desktop - please read

[Topher P. <ai...@gm...>]

Bill:

Oddly, I run under KDE and have noted no such misbehavior. I will, however,
perform the edit and see if there is any change in functionality.

73 de AI8W, Chris

On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 1:54 PM Bill Somerville <g4...@cl...>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> for some time there has been an annoying issue with the WSJT-X
> "Menu->Configurations" features not working correctly on Linux systems with
> the KDE desktop (the default desktop on some distributions like Kubuntu). I
> have tracked down the cause and have a workaround. I have added the
> following to the WSJT-X User Guide FAQ chapter for future releases:
>
>    -
>
>    *I am running WSJT-X on Linux using a KDE desktop. Why does
>    Menu→Configurations misbehave?*
>
>    The KDE development team have added code to Qt that tries to
>    automatically add shortcut accelerator keys to all buttons including pop up
>    menu buttons, this interferes with operation of the application (many other
>    Qt applications have similar issues with KDE). Until this is fixed by the
>    KDE team you must disable this misfeature. Edit the file
>    ~/.config/kdeglobals and add a section containing the following:
>
>    [Development]
>    AutoCheckAccelerators=false
>
>    See https://stackoverflow.com/a/32711483 and
>    https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337491 for more details.
>
> 73
> Bill
> G4WJS.
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