SUMMARY If I go to clipboard settings, go to actions and add action, the window that opens and darkens the main settings window blocks me from interacting with panels or desktop in any way, I still can interact with other windows. This is not exclusive to clipboard settings, I've seen it somewhere else, but forgot to report it. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open clipboard settings (right click on clipboard in tray or clipboard widget - settings) 2. Go to Actions 3. Click Add action 4. Try to interact with panels or desktop OBSERVED RESULT Can't interact with panels or desktop EXPECTED RESULT Should be able to SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.12.0 Qt Version: 6.8.2 Kernel Version: 6.13.7-zen1-1-zen (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 5600H with Radeon Graphics Memory: 13.5 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor 1: AMD Radeon Graphics Graphics Processor 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Can confirm
This happens because those are modal dialog windows, and by design, modal dialogs block the parent app until you interact with them and make them go away. In this case, the parent app is plasmashell. From a technical perspective, this is intentional and not a bug. If blocking all of plasmashell is considered bad, we should make it not be a modal dialog.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/5516
Git commit 30c0703860e8e943999152e141bb44c62ee1c038 by Nate Graham. Committed on 22/05/2025 at 20:27. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. klipper: make "Add Actions" dialog only window-modal Otherwise it blocks all of plasmashell while it's open. FIXED-IN: 6.3.6 M +1 -0 klipper/editactiondialog.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/30c0703860e8e943999152e141bb44c62ee1c038
Git commit bf67f25676d4d9777d888b6576127d368af66cb7 by Nate Graham. Committed on 22/05/2025 at 20:58. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'Plasma/6.3'. klipper: make "Add Actions" dialog only window-modal Otherwise it blocks all of plasmashell while it's open. FIXED-IN: 6.3.6 (cherry picked from commit 30c0703860e8e943999152e141bb44c62ee1c038) Co-authored-by: Nate Graham <nate@kde.org> M +1 -0 klipper/editactiondialog.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/bf67f25676d4d9777d888b6576127d368af66cb7
Git commit 2a8cdff96d326536bab6dcd4db7beb33a62e3488 by Nate Graham. Committed on 22/05/2025 at 20:52. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'Plasma/6.4'. klipper: make "Add Actions" dialog only window-modal Otherwise it blocks all of plasmashell while it's open. FIXED-IN: 6.3.6 (cherry picked from commit 30c0703860e8e943999152e141bb44c62ee1c038) Co-authored-by: Nate Graham <nate@kde.org> M +1 -0 klipper/editactiondialog.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/2a8cdff96d326536bab6dcd4db7beb33a62e3488