SUMMARY When using a key with a modifier, that keystroke seems to be stored in the buffer and is entered into the next window STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open at least two windows that can accept text input, e.g. Konsole and Kate 2. In Kate, hightlight some text and press Ctrl-C, but release the Ctrl key before releasing the C key 3. Click on the Konsole window OBSERVED RESULT Observe the letter 'c' appear in the Konsole window EXPECTED RESULT No character should appear in Konsole SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Fedora Linux 41 KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.11.0 Qt Version: 6.8.2 Kernel Version: 6.12.15-200.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 8 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1185G7 @ 3.00GHz Memory: 31.1 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor 1: Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics Graphics Processor 2: NVIDIA T500 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Kate, Konsole, and Ctrl-C are just examples. I have seen it happen with Ctrl-A as well, and with other apps like Brave, Slack, etc. It does NOT happen in X11. For example, copying text from Konsole with Ctrl-Shift-C and then selecting Kate will do the same thing.
I can no longer reproduce this bug. Unfortunately, I don't know whether it was resolved in Plasma 6.3 or by simply installing plasma-workspace-x11. Here is more history: - observed details of the bug as described in this bug report - installed plasma-workspace-x11 to determine whether it can be reproduced in Wayland - rebooted, and logged in using X11 - after login, I was greeted with the "Welcome to Plasma 6.3" window - filed the bug report - logged out and back in using Wayland - bug no longer occurs I will try uninstalling plasma-workspace-x11 to see what that may do.
After uninstalling plasma-workspace-x11 I still cannot reproduce the bug. This seems to point to the bug having been fixed in version 6.3. I should also mention that the version details I posted are probably not correct since updates were apparently applied between the last time I saw the bug and the time I reported it. My sincere apologies for the inaccuracy.
I can't reproduce this either on master. I don't think it makes sense to keep this bug open if it's no longer reproducible - it may be fixed or just have been a temporary thing somehow. Please reopen if the issue reappears.
I can now reproduce this reliably. I'm not sure what made the problem go away for a short time, but perhaps it was some remnant of x11 having been installed.
Still present. I don't know if I use the Ctrl key in a very unusual way or why exactly this bug hasn't had any attention. I'm surprised it doesn't bother everyone that uses KDE.
It doesn't seem to happen to anyone else. If you can reproduce it reliably, please run two applications with WAYLAND_DEBUG=1, reproduce the issue and then attach the debug output here.
Thank you for following up on this issue. In the past few days, it has happened twice. So it is not as reproducible as it once was, which also means that it is not as problematic. When it replaces selected text in a form or a block of selected code in my IDE, it's a bit annoying. But since it's pretty rare, I can certainly live with it. Which is also likely why nobody has found their way to this tracking site to investigate it.
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I had a sudden thought the other day. I wondered if this is related to a dvorak remapping tool I had installed years ago: https://github.com/tbocek/dvorak. I uninstalled it and have been working without it for several days now and the problem has not happened. The only mystery is why it started happening and how I can have the feature I was getting from that tool. But that may be out of scope for this issue.
This has been an issue for me for a while now, but I didn't know what the steps to reproduce were so thank you steve. It is quite a disruptive bug as characters end up in source files without me realising until much later. System info: Operating System: KDE neon User Edition KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0 Qt Version: 6.9.2 Kernel Version: 6.14.0-33-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland
It might be the same bug as bug 510404
The description sounds nearly identical except that I no longer experience it after removing github.com/tbocek/dvorak. When I'm able to upgrade to kwin 6.5.4 (which I assume contains the fix) I'll try reinstalling the dvorak tool and report back.
I've just updated and the problem appears to be resolved. Side note: I'm not using any alternate keyboard tools. I'm now on: Operating System: KDE neon User Edition KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.21.0 Qt Version: 6.10.1 Kernel Version: 6.14.0-37-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland