SUMMARY When a shortcut is assigned to a terminal application (e.g. fish, htop) in the menu editor, pressing that shortcut will launch the application without a terminal, despite the menu item specifies "Run in terminal". STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open menu editor 2. Select htop 3. Assign shortcut "Meta-H" 4. Press Meta-H OBSERVED RESULT Nothing visible. journalctl shows: kglobalaccel5: Error opening terminal: unknown EXPECTED RESULT htop opens in a terminal SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.90 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.94.0 Qt Version: 5.15.4
BTW, the "Error opening terminal: unknown" message is printed by htop, when run without a terminal.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kglobalaccel/-/merge_requests/47
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Git commit b72930eb075a79ff89e8db221749de978706e5bf by Ahmad Samir, on behalf of Jin Liu. Committed on 02/07/2022 at 12:26. Pushed by ahmadsamir into branch 'master'. Launch app in terminal when Terminal=true When the desktop file has Terminal=true (e.g. htop), it should be launched in a terminal. Instead of calling "kstart5 -- <exec path>", this calls "kstart5 --application <desktop file name>" when and only when: 1. kstart5 is available 2. the desktop file is in XDG_DATA_HOME/applications/, not XDG_DATA_HOME/kglobalaccel/ 3. we are launching the desktop file's main group, not other actions M +35 -16 src/runtime/kserviceactioncomponent.cpp M +3 -0 src/runtime/kserviceactioncomponent.h https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kglobalaccel/commit/b72930eb075a79ff89e8db221749de978706e5bf