Bug 438612

Summary: Unable to invoke App Launcher via META Key
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: PGillespie <vermontpoet>
Component: Application Launcher (Kickoff)Assignee: David Edmundson <kde>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: mikel5764, nate, plasma-bugs
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.22.0   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Neon   
OS: Linux   
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Description PGillespie 2021-06-14 12:19:53 UTC 
SUMMARY

This may be related to an earlier bug I filed:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437929

I can invoke the app launcher from the panel, via touchpad or mouse, but the ability to invoke it via the touchscreen or META Key seems broken. 

Attempts to fix the META key via Plasma Tips:

https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/Tips#Windows.2FMeta_Key

Have also failed.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Assign ALT+F1 to App Launcher via Settings and/or invoke the following code:

kwriteconfig5 --file ~/.config/kwinrc --group ModifierOnlyShortcuts --key Meta "org.kde.plasmashell,/PlasmaShell,org.kde.PlasmaShell,activateLauncherMenu"
qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin reconfigure

2. Press META Key


OBSERVED RESULT

Nothing.

EXPECTED RESULT

Launch App Launcher

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

System:    Host: NEON Kernel: 5.12.9-surface x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.22.0 
           Distro: KDE neon 20.04 5.22 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Microsoft product: Surface Go v: 1 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-06-15 20:45:31 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 391322 ***
Comment 2 PGillespie 2021-06-22 11:39:34 UTC 
Solved/Workaround. I reset the hotkey combination by right-clicking on the Panel App/Launcher and setting it there rather than through KWIN Settings.