Bug 432438

Summary:	Custom shortcut for keyboard input no longer works after updating to 5.21 beta
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	Jan Keith Darunday <jkcdarunday>
Component:	kcm_khotkeys	Assignee:	Michael Jansen <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	butirsky, justin.zobel, kde, nate, plasma-bugs, vmorenomarin
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	regression
Version First Reported In:	5.20.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433576
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Jan Keith Darunday 2021-02-02 22:57:14 UTC

SUMMARY
The global shortcut for keyboard input no longer works after updating to 5.21 beta. This is currently important to me as the backtick is bound to Yakuake. 

However, from my observation this not only affects backtick and is a more general issue as creating a shortcut to type hello when pressing Ctrl + Shift + T does not work as well.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Go to System Settings > Shortcuts > Custom Shortcuts
2. Create a new Keyboard Input shortcut (Edit > New > Global Shortcuts > Send Keyboard Input) and name it Backtick
3. Go to trigger and set trigger to Meta + ` (backtick)
4. Set action to type in a backtick (`)
5. Press apply
6. On any window (QT and non-QT), press Meta + `

OBSERVED RESULT
Pressing Meta + ` does not insert a backtick

EXPECTED RESULT
Pressing Meta + ` should insert a backtick


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.90
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.78.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.10.11-arch1-1
OS Type: 64-bit

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This does not seem to be specific to backtick as creating a shortcut to type hello when pressing Ctrl + Shift + T did not work as well.

Comment 1 Andrey 2021-02-04 00:09:10 UTC

Hi Jan,
are you using layout's variants?
Just wanted to make sure you don't suffer from Bug 432367 which might be related.

Comment 2 Jan Keith Darunday 2021-02-04 02:28:39 UTC

(In reply to Andrey from comment #1)
> Hi Jan,
> are you using layout's variants?
> Just wanted to make sure you don't suffer from Bug 432367 which might be
> related.

Hi Andrey,

I'm using the English (US) Colemak through fcitx and I haven't noticed any keys typing the wrong character. Same issue happens even if I disable fcitx.

I also have another custom shortcut created with Global Shortcut > Command/URL which is bound to Meta + A and it's working fine.

Comment 3 David Redondo 2021-02-04 07:55:45 UTC

"Global shortcuts" and "Custom shortcuts" go through two different systems so probably khotkeys cannot handle the backtick?

Comment 4 Víctor 2021-02-04 13:03:33 UTC

Hi. I have similar issue.

I use custom shortcuts for specific words in my work, like emails, usernames and other things. Last days,  using by example Win+V to type the word "vmorenomarin", the trigger only returns "morenomarin", opens the launcher and blocks the window until press the Win key. 

Operating System: KDE neon Testing Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.90
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.79.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.4.0-64-generic
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 6 × AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1045T Processor
Memory: 7,8 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: GeForce GTX 750/PCIe/SSE2

Comment 5 Andrey 2021-03-11 21:37:41 UTC

(In reply to Jan Keith Darunday from comment #2)
> I'm using the English (US) Colemak through fcitx and I haven't noticed any
> keys typing the wrong character. Same issue happens even if I disable fcitx.
> 
> I also have another custom shortcut created with Global Shortcut >
> Command/URL which is bound to Meta + A and it's working fine.

Can you try just English (US) layout? Also, do combos with Alt instead of Meta work for you?

Comment 6 Justin Zobel 2021-03-18 04:18:19 UTC

I've set this bug to NEEDSINFO. Once you have added the required information please change the bug back to REPORTED so we know it's ready for investigation.

Comment 7 Bug Janitor Service 2021-04-02 04:33:34 UTC

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Comment 8 Andrey 2021-04-02 11:34:40 UTC

Anyone suffering from the issue please paste your ~/.config/kxkbrc
and make sure it's not bug 433576.

Comment 9 Víctor 2021-04-02 15:14:43 UTC

(In reply to Andrey from comment #8)
> Anyone suffering from the issue please paste your ~/.config/kxkbrc
> and make sure it's not bug 433576.

[$Version]
update_info=kxkb_variants.upd:split-variants

[Layout]
DisplayNames=
LayoutList=es
LayoutLoopCount=-1
Model=
ResetOldOptions=false
ShowFlag=false
ShowLabel=true
ShowLayoutIndicator=true
ShowSingle=false
SwitchMode=Global
Use=true
VariantList=\\0

Comment 10 Andrey 2021-04-02 18:44:39 UTC

(In reply to Víctor from comment #9)
> (In reply to Andrey from comment #8)
> > Anyone suffering from the issue please paste your ~/.config/kxkbrc
> 
> ...
> VariantList=\\0

Remove this line and wait for 5.21.4.
I'm closing it as duplicate, if it's a different issue please reopen.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 433576 ***