Bug 508697 - The key sequence 'Ctrl+C' is ambiguous.
Summary: The key sequence 'Ctrl+C' is ambiguous.
Status: RESOLVED REMIND
Alias: None
Product: kate
Classification: Applications
Component: kwrite (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 25.04.3
Platform: Gentoo Packages Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWrite Developers
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Reported: 2025-08-25 06:50 UTC by Chillru
Modified: 2025-09-24 15:30 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Chillru 2025-08-25 06:50:57 UTC 
SUMMARY

After upgrading my kde packages to 25.04.03 and along with it kwrite, kate-lib and kate-common i suddenly get this message in kwrite:
> The key sequence 'Ctrl+C' is ambiguous. Use 'Configure Keyboard Shortcuts'
> from the 'Settings' menu to solve the ambiguity.
> No action will be triggered.

Same for Ctrl+V, Ctrl+X - maybe more.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open kwrite
2. Select something
3. Press Ctrl+C to copy it.

OBSERVED RESULT

The aforementioned error messge.

EXPECTED RESULT

The selected text is copied to the clipboard.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: 6.12.3
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.6
KDE Frameworks Version: not sure
Qt Version: 5.15.17

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Nothing was changed in my shortcut configuration.
Comment 1 Waqar Ahmed 2025-08-25 07:51:03 UTC 
What keyboard layout are you using?

Can you try enabling all logging and share the output? In a terminal, do the following:

can you try enabling all logging by doing:

export QT_LOGGING_RULES="*=true"
kate -b -n &> logs

Then reproduce the issue and quit kate. There will be a file "logs" which might help understand whats happening.

Possibly a duplicate of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499045
Comment 2 Bug Janitor Service 2025-09-09 03:48:41 UTC 
🐛🧹 ⚠️ This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 15 days. Please provide the requested information, then set the bug status to REPORTED. If there is no change for at least 30 days, it will be automatically closed as RESOLVED WORKSFORME.

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Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2025-09-24 03:47:35 UTC 
🐛🧹 This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. Closing as RESOLVED WORKSFORME.
Comment 4 Cavalier0491 2025-09-24 15:30:33 UTC 
I am also having this issue. However, when i go to keyboard shortcuts, and see that indeed, the only shortcut assigned to ctrl+c is copy, and go back to try to copy, the message box no longer appears (even on consecutive tries).

So i'm not really sure if this is worth investigating further.

Operating System: Fedora Linux 42
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.18.0
Qt Version: 6.9.2
Kernel Version: 6.16.7-200.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland