Firstly, I'll provide some background information.  I log into KDE via the SDDM, and my Application Dashboard widget is located on the main panel.  Also, I have assigned the "Meta (Windows key) + a" keyboard shortcut to it.

I notice that, after logging in, said shortcut only works when my mouse cursor is hovering on the main panel.  If it's instead located elsewhere on the screen at the time, nothing happens when I press "Meta+a".  This is the case even if I try it multiple times.

However, after killing and relaunching "plasmashell", the shortcut works first time (every time).  So, as a workaround, I've instructed KDE to launch the following shell script on startup.  It adds some delay to the login process, so this bug still needs to be fixed.

`--> cat `which Restart-Plasma`
#!/bin/bash

killall plasmashell
plasmashell &>/dev/null &

Before doing this, I tried to get it going via XbindKeys (without success).  I added the following lines to my "~/.xbindkeysrc" file.  Unfortunately, "plasmashell" still needed to be killed before this would work.  BTW, can you give the D-Bus shortcut a better name than "activate widget 18"?

"qdbus org.kde.kglobalaccel /component/plasmashell org.kde.kglobalaccel.Component.invokeShortcut 'activate widget 18'"
Mod4 + a


Reproducible: Always