SUMMARY When you set a keyboard shortcut in Custom Shortcuts that involves a letter, the keyboard shortcut doesn't work STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. System Settings 2. Shortcuts 3. Add New Command 4. Custom Shortcut - Alt + Shift + R 5 Command - xcowsay "hi" OBSERVED RESULT To see cow with text "hi" EXPECTED RESULT SOFTWARE/OS VERSION: Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.5.0 Qt Version: 6.7.2 Kernel Version: 6.10.6-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor Memory: 125.7 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Product Name: MS-7D54 System Version: 1.0 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I am unable to reproduce this on Arch KDE 6.1.4 with X11. Can you check if you have something like: [services][xcowsay.desktop] _launch=Alt+Shift+R in your ~/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc config file?
Did you set Alt+Shift for layout switching? What layout are you using?
(In reply to duha.bugs from comment #1) > I am unable to reproduce this on Arch KDE 6.1.4 with X11. > > Can you check if you have something like: > > [services][xcowsay.desktop] > _launch=Alt+Shift+R > > in your ~/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc config file? Yes, I do
(In reply to fanzhuyifan from comment #2) > Did you set Alt+Shift for layout switching? What layout are you using? I'm using Right Alt for layout switching US Layout
(In reply to cprog from comment #4) > (In reply to fanzhuyifan from comment #2) > > Did you set Alt+Shift for layout switching? What layout are you using? > > I'm using Right Alt for layout switching > US Layout Unfortunately this seems to be a known upstream xkb issue that the layout switching shortcut interferes with ordinary shortcuts: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/258 If you use the alternate shortcut handled by plasma, the issue should be resolved (currently there are just some issues with alt+shift, all other shortcuts should work fine).