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Rename the "shutdown" shortcut to "power off" in KDE Plasma? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by sbeak@sopuli.xyz to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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I was originally used to "shutdown" when typing the shortcut in the search box and always accidentally typed that instead of "power off" after switching from GNOME to KDE. (gnome I believe called it shutdown). I eventually trained myself to type "power off" instead.

Now, with the latest version of Plasma, they had the audacity to rename the shortcut to "shutdown", so now I always mistype "power off"! This would be fine if it showed up the option once you started typing (like it did before with "shutdown" I think), but the "Shutdown" shortcut now only shows up once you type the full "power off", what the heck! Typing just "Shut" already shows the option, and before, typing something like "pow" was enough to show the "power off" shortcut

Why did they change it from power off to shutdown, and did the change in how KDE handles searching make the "synonyms" of certain shortcuts require the full thing? (I remember a video talking about how Plasma 6.5 changed search so that results start to show when you type one character only, which was pretty neat. I guess that had a few side effects?)

Is it possible to rename the shortcut to "power off" again, or at least make it show up when I type "pow"? I'm sure it's possible in KDE.

Other than this (very) minor complaint as well as a few others I will not rant about today, KDE Plasma has been awesome and I really like being able to customize the themes way more than GNOME ever let me (I am currently running Catppuccin Macchiato + purple accent colour and have the "taskbar" on the top since I like having the clock up there, and it also means the tab bar in my browser is closer to the apps which is nice. No more going up and down! Also, the "Elisa" music player is really good, and themed as well which is very nice. Calendar apps were a problem in KDE, neither merkuro nor Korganizer could sync with my Radicale instance for whatever reason, and the GNOME calendar doesn't match in aesthetics and I also can't configure what calendars are shown as the settings takes inspiration from the iPhone's Camera app where it's all in the system settings of a GNOME that no longer is installed on my system. I ended up using Thunderbird for calendar stuff. Also, LibreOffice needed to be run in XWayland to avoid lag, which is weird)

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The piece of software you're asking about is KRunner, but I don't think editing existing entries is supported. It's possible, sure, but it's probably a bigger mess than you'd like to deal with.

I would just make a shortcut to the shutdown action and let it populate in the results, then just use that to trigger a shutdown. Or I suppose you could make a quick keyboard shortcut.

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not that, when searching with the "application menu". Or is KRunner running when that is open? I'm pretty sure its different since KRunner (when opened with keyboard shortcut) shows extra things compared to the application menu search bar. Dang, you can't edit that easily?

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

KRunner is the launcher that is responsible for launching all things by keyboard, yes. You can't edit system entries easily without patching some stuff in.

Here's the list of various runners: https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma_application_launchers

[–] sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

For me typing "power off" or "shut down" works but I have to write it in full.

[–] sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

you could try running this command

qdbus6 org.kde.Shutdown /Shutdown logoutAndShutdown

WARNING: this should shutdown your PC. I didn't test it personally but it should work.

create a menu shortcut that execute this command and you will never have to deal with this problem again.