Launch Capture Window in KDE

I created a custom shortcut Meta-T in KDE with the following trigger:

emacsclient -e "(org-capture)" --create-frame

I went with calling org-capture directly as that shows a buffer where I can choose which template to use. If I was using the org-protocol feature, I’d need to setup one KDE shortcut per template, the maintenance of which would annoy me to no end, on top of filling up my global shortcuts.

But this did not raise the new frame in all cases. For example, if I had my browser up and pressed Meta-T, the new Emacs frame would be created but would not be focused.

To make that work, I needed the shortcut trigger to be:

emacsclient -e \
  "(progn (x-focus-frame nil) (org-capture))" \
  --create-frame

and I needed to add the following snippet to my Emacs config:

(defun my/focus-new-client-frame ()
  (select-frame-set-input-focus (selected-frame)))

(add-hook 'server-after-make-frame-hook
  #'my/focus-new-client-frame)

I got that snippet from this reddit post.

Now, when pressing Meta-T anywhere will create a new frame and focus it.