Ubuntu – Set a hotkey to show an auto-hiding Plasma panel

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I've set my Plasma panel to auto-hide.

How do i map a hotkey to pop out the panel so that i can have a look at it without moving my hand off the keyboard to the mouse and then dragging the mouse all the way down the screen?

I've looked into the Global Keyboard Shortcuts control, found the Plasma Desktop Shell section, but failed to find a relevant item.

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Toggle Panel | Panel Toggle

There are (at least) two plasmoids to toggle the panel visibility. Both have the option to add the keyboard shortcut.

From the old KDE svn playground: http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/base/plasma/applets/togglepanel/

From the KDE-Apps.org: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=149654

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Mousekeys functionality is provided by the xkeyboard driver, and the easiest way to activate and deactivate mousekeys from the terminal or scripts is to use a program dedicated to that task, such as xkbset.

sudo apt install xkbset
xkbset mousekeys   # enable mousekeys
xkbset -mousekeys  # disable mousekeys

Another utility, xdotool, provides functions to control mouse movement programmatically. This may be useful if you need to control the mouse cursor without any user involvement.

As far as I can tell, kwriteconfig5 activates or deactivates most changed settings immediately. In cases where that doesn't happen, it's usually sufficient to reload whichever program uses the config file in question.

Usually, the problematic programs are plasmashell or kwin, but in this case, reloading either is not helpful because neither uses kaccessrc nor provides the functions you desire.

Reloading kaccess also appears to not work. Normally, the xkeyboard driver is handled by other processes during startup/login. Since there is usually no need, kaccess does not alter xkeyboard settings when loaded.

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