How to reproduce: - open several windows of the same application (e.g. 3 instances of Konsole) - hold alt and hit the ` key several times Expected results: - show the window switcher and select the next window every time the ` key is hit Actual results: - the window switcher is shown and the next window is selected, but hitting ` or ~ does nothing. I can't navigate through the other windows. I have no problem with the alt-tab global switcher. Distribution: openSUSE Tumbleweed KDE Plasma: 5.10.5 Frameworks: 5.37.0 QT: 5.9.1
I just tried and this works fine on Wayland, though I assume it's an X11 only issue.
I haven't tried Wayland. It seems the bug is related to the keyboard layouts. I have set 3 layouts : us international with dead keys, us and french. If I put us international with dead keys, or french in the top slot, the bug appears. If I put us first, it works. Changing the layout doesn't seem to do anything.
That's of course relevant. The key combo is Alt+` and not alt+(key above tab). The layout matters. This means also Wayland is affected as there shortcuts are also taking the layout into account. If that's the actual problem then it's unfortunately by design of the global shortcut system.
Thanks for your answer. The thing is, it acts as if it was alt+(key above tab) the first time I hit the combo and then it stops working (does it switch to another layout ?). I can't reassign the shortcut either. I have tried for example super+v. The first hit brings the app switcher, and then it stops. It doesn't seem to respect the current layout (it is set to global in the keyboard settings).
I'm slightly confused. Especially I don't get when it breaks. Does break mean you cannot open the application mode again or does it mean you cannot step through the list like with tab?
Sorry, I should have been more specific : it breaks when I want to go through the list, it is stuck to the second window. Also I want to correct my previous statement : I can actually reassign it to super+v. It turns out I had to restart the session (otherwise, super+v launches the app switcher, then I have to hit alt+` to go through the app list). I am still a bit confused about how it works. I guess I am expecting the entire desktop to use the layout that I selected, but it seems to switch between layouts (launching the app switcher is using one layout, going through the list is using another ?).
I guess it is now very similar to this bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=371502 Sorry about the dupe.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 371502 ***