KDE has an extremely powerful scripted user interface through the use of the dcop utility.

He came back 30 minutes later with a solution, which I’m posting for you here.

kwrite ~/gsrch.sh

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Enable Google Search From Shortcut Key in KDE on (k)Ubuntu

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