Bug 490684

Summary:	Meta key stops working after `plasmashell --replace`
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	iodreamify
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	cwo.kde, kde
Priority:	NOR
Version:	6.1.3
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
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Description iodreamify 2024-07-23 01:09:16 UTC

SUMMARY
The Meta key stops working if i execute `plasmashell --replace`

The application launcher won't open and none of Meta+1 shortcuts do anything on the taskbar.

If i use `kquitapp6 plasmashell && kstart plasmashell` however meta key works as usual 

Sorry if this is not a bug but i couldn't find anywhere stating that this is intentional.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1.  run `plasmashell --replace` from terminal

OBSERVED RESULT
Meta key stops working

EXPECTED RESULT
Meta key works or documentation clears this up 

Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.4.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Kernel Version: 6.9.10-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland

Comment 1 cwo 2024-09-16 14:22:26 UTC

Thanks for the bug report! Another report on the same issue was filed later, but in a more appropriate place and is already marked as confirmed, so I'm marking this one as a duplicate of that for simplicity. Please follow that report for updates on a fix.

For a comment on that report, Meta is supposed to still work if `systemctl restart --user plasma-plasmashell.service` is used instead of `plasmashell --replace`, which may be a workaround until the issue is fixed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 493200 ***