SUMMARY Can't close overview with a hotkey STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Press Meta + W to open overview 2. Press Meta + W again to close overview OBSERVED RESULT Overview is not closed. w is written in search bar EXPECTED RESULT Overview is closed SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.90 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.90.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.16.0-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa DRI Intel® HD Graphics 4600 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Does it magically start working if you restart KWin or the system? If so it might be the same as Bug 448385, and we should re-open it and investigate.
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I re-checked it and it works now. Esc to close and Meta + W to open and close works. There were no updates to KWin in my distro since this bug report was made.
It's a semi-random heisenbug, unfortunately.
I've got a very similar bug: I can open and close overview using Meta+W, but if I set another keyboard shortcut to open the overview (in my case Alt+W), I can't use it to close it afterwards, and only Meta+W works for that purpose, as if it was hardcoded. In all cases, the escape key does not close the overview, which is problematic. Should I file another bug for that? Using Kubuntu with KDE backports, plasmashell 5.24.0
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 448435 ***