SUMMARY KRunner does not open on pressing global keyboard shortcut. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Start a Plasma Wayland session 2. Run krunner on command line. e.g. in Konsole. I do this to make sure krunner doesn't crash. 3. Press Alt+F2 or Alt+Space OBSERVED RESULT Nothing happens. Konsole handles the pressed key combination, this indicates that the global shortcut hadn't been recognized. EXPECTED RESULT KRunner should open its search/run input line. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: macOS: Linux/KDE Plasma: Fedora 32 (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.70.0 Qt Version: 5.14.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Can you please try if https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424266#c2 works for you?
(In reply to Alexander Lohnau from comment #1) > Can you please try if https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424266#c2 works > for you? There's no "kglobalaccel5" process running in a Plasma Wayland session. If I try to run if from command line (Yakuake), I get this error messages: "Couldn't register name 'org.kde.kglobalaccel' with DBUS - another process owns it already!"
Another update: I have the same problem in Plasma X11 as well. Other global shortcuts do work (e.g. F12 successfully opens Yakuake - both on X11 and Wayland), however Alt+F2 and Alt+Space do nothing.
Restarting kglobalaccel5 when on X11 doesn't help mitigate the problem.
So is kglobalaccel running or not? If it's not running, then this would be expected, and the problem is why it's not running. :)
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #5) > So is kglobalaccel running or not? If it's not running, then this would be > expected, and the problem is why it's not running. :) Yes and no. Depends on whether Xorg or Wayland is used. Let's only consider the case when kglobalaccel5 is running, for now. ---- When using Plasma on Xorg, the problem described in this report is - Still reproducible while kglobalaccel5 is running, on Fedora 32 and Plasma 5.18.5. - Not reproducible on Archlinux and Plasma 5.19.90.
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I noticed this bug a few days ago on Arch Linux running Plasma 5.20.
Can you please check if the KRunner is running after the shortcut was pressed? And does it work when krunner is manually started on the terminal? I fear it might be related to the systemd startup. @Partick: Could you also please try out if it works when mapping KRunner to the meta key? This way we don't use kglobalaccel5 and just kwin(https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KRunner).
Systemd startup is not in 5.20 and is off by default in git master FWIW.
(In reply to Alexander Lohnau from comment #9) > @Partick: Could you also please try out if it works when mapping KRunner to > the meta key? This way we don't use kglobalaccel5 and just > kwin(https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KRunner). I can't reproduce this bug consistently, currently both alt+space and alt+F2 shortcuts are working on my Wayland session. I will try your instruction if the bug to occur again.