'Esc' key set as shortcut for audio volume widget

[tlmooreclemson]

I am currently using my personal Lenovo laptop with the KDE Plasma DE. Everything is great except that everytime I restart my computer the ‘Esc’ key gets set as the shortcut for the audio volume control widget in my system tray. No matter how many times I go into the shortcut settings and delete this shortcut, or set it to something else, when I restart the ‘Esc’ key is back at it with these shenanigans.

Please help me stop this madness.

[bogdancovaciu]

You mean this shortcut ?

Make sure you set your session to start empty

so it not getting the settings from the previous session …

[tlmooreclemson]

Thanks for the reply. It is indeed the keyboard shortcut you indicated. My Desktop session settings are currently set to ‘Start with an empty session’. I don’t think I ever set the shortcut to be ‘Esc’ but may have accidentally done it at some point.

[bogdancovaciu]

Take a look inside the following files:

• ~/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc
  for this content there:
  activate widget 9=Esc,none,Activate Audio Volume Widget

• ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc
  for this content, or something similar:

[Containments][8][Applets][9][Shortcuts]
global=Esc

and delete them manually, save the files, log out and back in.

[tlmooreclemson]

Thank you so much! This did the trick. Previously, I tried to tinker with ~/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc and set activate widget 9=none,none,Activate Audio Volume Widget but this didn’t really work. After making your suggested edits and restarting, things seem to be back to normal. Thanks again!