Bug 496743

Summary:	KRunner appears unreliably when typing on a desktop with no visible or open windows
Product:	[Plasma] krunner	Reporter:	Andrea Ippolito <andrea.ippo>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	alexander.lohnau, boris.v.petrov, john.kizer, natalie_clarius
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.2.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Andrea Ippolito 2024-11-27 08:15:36 UTC

I used to (back in the Plasma 5 days, IIRC) be able to start typing something as soon as I reached my Plasma session, and KRunner would popup and take note of what I was typing. Super convenient to quickly start an app you don't want to auto-start, but only need occasionally.

Now for a while this has been really unreliable. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't (i.e. I type and nothing happens).

I suspect it has something to do with window focus, but I haven't any windows open at this point. I have some auto-starting apps in my tray, though.

I also tried to open any app window (e.g. firefox, dolphin), then Meta+D to focus the Desktop and then start typing, and this works consistently, good. But at boot when nothing else has been opened yet, it's hit-or-miss.

Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20241125
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.8.0
Qt Version: 6.8.0
Kernel Version: 6.11.8-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 7840U w/ Radeon 780M Graphics
Memory: 30.7 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon 780M
Manufacturer: Framework
Product Name: Laptop 13 (AMD Ryzen 7040Series)
System Version: A7

Thanks in advance! :)

Comment 1 John Kizer 2024-12-01 07:39:51 UTC

I can reproduce unreliable behavior when minimizing all open windows and then starting to type. Clicking on the desktop itself seems to cause typing to start KRunner sometimes, but isn't consistent either.

Related to my system info - I do have an Nvidia card, and I can trigger https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480800 , but this appears to be separate as when I experience this one, no eglSwapBuffers errors appear in the journal.

Operating System: Fedora Linux 41
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.8.0
Qt Version: 6.8.0
Kernel Version: 6.11.8-300.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core Processor
Memory: 30.4 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2

Comment 2 Boris Petrov 2025-07-22 11:02:13 UTC

I have the same issue and noticed in my case that it only refuses to work on the first desktop reached after login. In my case it’s the one from which I last shut my system down (I don’t know if there’s a setting for this). For example, if I have four desktops and shutdown from the 3rd, on next login I will land on it. KRunner will then work (by typing on the desktop) on the 1st, 2nd, and 4th, but not on the 3rd.

After some time though, it seems to again from from all of them.

Graphics Platform: Wayland
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.16.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1