Binding Alt+f1 to any of the application launchers is enough to get meta to launch them. However, this doesn't work with krunner. There is a workaround, which is to run: kwriteconfig5 --file kwinrc --group ModifierOnlyShortcuts --key Meta "org.kde.krunner,/App,,toggleDisplay" Please a) allow meta to be associated with krunner as a shortcut via the UI; b) perhaps more generally provide a way in shortcuts for "meta" to be _the_ shortcut, without needing the alt+f1 workaround.
> without needing the alt+f1 workaround. It's not something decided by kwin, but plasma.
I think it's reasonable for there to be a generic way to make the Meta key a shortcut for anything, as requested here. The weird Alt+F1 redirection for Kickoff is strange and unintuitive.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 371560 ***