Bug 331528

Summary:	Alt-v does not work in emacs, konsole, urxvt, etc under KDE
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdelibs	Reporter:	Kim Lindberger <kim.lindberger>
Component:	shortcuts	Assignee:	kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	adis, cfeck, christoph, tuomas
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	4.12.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Kim Lindberger 2014-02-26 10:07:36 UTC

Alt-v (M-v) is seemingly swallowed by KDE even though it's not bound to any global actions.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a program that uses the Alt-v shortcut (emacs, for example)
2. Start the program and try the shortcut
Actual Results:  
Nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
The action bound to Alt-v in the program should be triggered.

Tested on two gentoo systems (one a fresh install, no prior kde config files) and exherbo.

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2014-02-26 10:36:57 UTC

Cannot reproduce. What keyboard layout do you use, and does it also happen with English layout?

Comment 2 Kim Lindberger 2014-02-26 12:05:39 UTC

Hm, it seems dependent on keycodes; I use svorak (swedish dvorak), but if I switch to us qwerty the same key combination, "Alt-.", still doesn't work.

Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2014-02-26 12:38:25 UTC

@Andriy, have you seen this issue somewhere?

Comment 4 adisbladis 2014-02-28 23:15:07 UTC

Affects me too.

Using KDE 4.12.2 using swedish dvorak on Exherbo.

Comment 5 Kim Lindberger 2014-03-14 14:53:48 UTC

Still valid in 4.12.3, sadly.

Comment 6 Tuomas Suutari 2014-03-15 09:15:33 UTC

WORKAROUND:

Go to Window Manager Settings (for example from the application icon on window title bar and choose More Actions -> Window Manager Settings) -> Task Switcher. Clear both the "Alt+`" and "Alt+~" shortcuts from the Current application Forward and Backward keys.

On US and FI (qwerty) keyboard layouts this affects Alt+. and on SE/dvorak layout this affects the Alt+v which is on the same keys.

Since it can be workarounded from kwin settings, does it mean that this is a kwin bug?

Comment 7 Kim Lindberger 2014-03-17 10:56:16 UTC

Thanks! That fix works fine for me.

I guess it's a bug in whatever part handles shortcuts; feel free to put it in the right one if you know.

Comment 8 Tuomas Suutari 2024-01-12 11:35:54 UTC

Still exists in Ubuntu 22.04, which seems to have Plasma 5.24.

Comment 9 Christoph Cullmann 2024-08-11 16:56:37 UTC

For me that works on Plasma 6.