Bug 503632

Created attachment 180861 [details]
Screenshot of gsr-ui shortcut settings

SUMMARY

TL; DR: I'm using Arch Linux on Wayland installed with the archinstall script, in which I've set the keyboard layout and locale  to French. I wanted to have multiple keyboard layouts, at least QWERTY in addition to my AZERTY layout, but it messes up shortcuts set in X11 applications. Namely gpu-screen-recorder when I empty certain shortcuts fields I don't want to use (as I prefer to use Spectacle shortcuts for screenshots). If I remove all layouts, it works as expected.

I'll put a few quotes here about a back-and-forth I've had with the developer of gpu-screen-recorder (https://git.dec05eba.com/gpu-screen-recorder-ui/about/).

Me:
" I wanted to report an issue I found with the ui app. When I remove the shortcut for taking screenshots (backspace when configuring the shortcut), my numpad's * (multiplication) key is captured by the app and takes screenshots instead. I've opted to put a bogus shortcut instead that's impossible to type with one hand to circumvent the issue."

"Hello,
I managed to figure out what setting was causing the issue. I had alternate key maps set up in KDE's keyboard configuration in order to switch between my regular French layout and a QWERTY US layout. Having any layout set up there and enabled at all does result in gsr creating screenshots instead of getting the * key. If remove the layouts, or disable alternative layouts, it works as expected.It might be something really specific with my system though since I had used archinstall to quickly reinstall my system way back when, and I had asked the script to configure the default layout. Maybe there's a conflict with KDE's keyboard settings and my system's innate keyboard layout configuration."

dec05eba:
"I'm unable to reproduce that issue when doing exactly that. But I did not that the hotkeys are incorrect when doing that, it applies qwerty layout hotkeys even when in french layout.I needed to run "setxkbmap fr" to make french apply to gpu screen recorder as well.I think this might actually be a kde plasma wayland bug, it doesn't apply keyboard layout change properly to x11 applications.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Install gpu-screen-recorder and gsr-ui;
2. Add a keyboard layout (any will do);
3. In gsr-ui, as shown in the picture, empty the screenshot shortcut options.

OBSERVED RESULT
The numpad "*" key takes screenshots through gpu-screen-recorder

EXPECTED RESULT
Getting the "*" when I type on it.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Arch Linux x64 Wayland
KDE Plasma Version: plasma-desktop 6.3.4-1
KDE Frameworks Version: frameworkintegration 6.13.0-1 (kf6)
Qt Version: qt6-base 6.9.0-1 (qt6)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I've discussed back and forth with the developer of the app to see if he could reproduce it. He couldn't reproduce it exactly, but has observed a similar behaviour.