Bug 492646

Summary:	"Left arrow" key not possible to enter in Plasma, but works in SDDM
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	Henning <boredsquirrel>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	major	CC:	aleixpol, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.1.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Henning 2024-09-04 12:06:18 UTC

Since a week or so, the left arrow doesnt work anymore.
I thought this was a hardware issue, but the same happens with an Apple USB keyboard and a Logitech wireless keyboard.

Meanwhile, the key works in SDDM. This is really strange, any way to detect how far the key stroke goes would help. I am also not sure where this belongs.

libinput-1.26.2-1.fc40.x86_64

libwayland-client-1.23.0-2.fc40.x86_64
libwayland-cursor-1.23.0-2.fc40.x86_64
libwayland-server-1.23.0-2.fc40.x86_64
libwayland-egl-1.23.0-2.fc40.x86_64
wayland-utils-1.2.0-4.fc40.x86_64

Operating System: Fedora Linux 40 Kinoite
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.5.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Kernel Version: 6.10.6-200.fc40.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz
Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM

Hardware: Novacustom Clevo NV41 with dasharo Coreboot

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2024-09-04 12:59:11 UTC

If it works in SDDM but not your normal session, then there's some configuration in your normal session that's blocking it.

Does this reproduce in a new clean user account? If not, then my theory is right, and you'll need to figure out what customization is causing it.

Comment 2 Henning 2024-09-04 16:53:44 UTC

Input works on the lockscreen of the same user. Which is odd...

I will try a second profile.

Comment 3 Henning 2024-09-15 20:54:20 UTC

sorry, this was indeed me having "left" assigned to an action that was gone.

This could be a FR tbh, to automatically unassign such combos, or block single-key-shortcuts in some cases like the arrow keys, or letter keys.