Bug 457953

Summary:	Super/Win key always opens the Application menu, regardless of set shortcut
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Ahmad Samir <a.samirh78>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	CC:	kde, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Ahmad Samir 2022-08-16 10:57:39 UTC

Open Application Menu's config dialog, the shortcut is Alt+F1 by default, if set to that it activated the menu when the Super/Win key is pressed.
- set the shortcut to something else, press Super/Win the menu is still activated
- unset the shortcut altogether, press Super/Win the menu is still activated

Editing ~/.config/kwinrc and adding:
[ModifierOnlyShortcuts]
Meta=

stops the Super/Win key from activating the menu.

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2022-08-17 19:28:16 UTC

This was an intentional change that was made to fix many bugs; see https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/1937.

Your workaround is in fact now the expected method of manually disabling it. :)