How to make persistent shortcuts to windows in KDE4?

Question

This answer Find and raise a window in KDE4 with shortcut tells how to set a keyboard shortcut which activates a particular windows. It works wonderfully. But if I close the application and restart it, the shortcut resets. Is there a way to make it persistent?

Answer 1

Go to the following KDE menu

• System Settings
• Shortcuts and Gestures
• Custom Shortcuts

Now select

• Edit
• New
• Global Shortcut
• Command/URL

Which allows you to set a trigger and the action wmctrl -a "<application>".

In KDE 5, you need to enable the new action by clicking the checkbox next to it in the tree (or its group, if its group is not enabled).

Notes:

• Tested with KDE 4.11.5 and KDE Frameworks 5.18.0.
• Verify that wmctrl is installed.
• The global shortcut will not appear in the title bar of the window.
• If you select the Examples group, there is an entry Activate KSIRC Window but I could not find a way to recreate similar entries using the user interface. It is possible to export the example group to a *.khotkeys file, manually create such entries and import them but using wmcrtl seems more comfortable.