Created attachment 192363 [details] Journal entry with stack trace Attempting to add a new application on the Keyboard >> Shortcuts screen triggers a kwin crash DESCRIPTION Attempting to add a new application on the Keyboard >> Shortcuts screen triggers a kwin crash STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. In System Settings, go to the Keyboard >> Shortcuts screen 2. Click the "Add New" button at the top right 3. Choose any application to add OBSERVED RESULT The screen briefly goes black, then reappears with a Kwin crash report. The application is not succesfully added to the keyboard shortcuts - instead at the top of the Shortcuts screen there's an error banner reading "Error while communicating with the global shortcuts service". EXPECTED RESULT The selected application should be added and made available to add shortcuts to, without any crash. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: KDE Linux 2026-05-16 image KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.90 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.27.0 Qt Version: 6.11.0 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Nvidia GPU (RTX 3060 Ti) using open-kernel driver 595.71.05. I haven't seen any kwin crashes on this system other than when performing this specific sequence of events. Attempting to download debug symbols in the crash report window failed, so there's a lot of ??? in the stack trace, but I'm attaching what I could recover from the journal.
Thank you for the bug report. I'm not able to reproduce this on git-master. Unfortunately the backtrace is incomplete, as you mentioned. We do need the missing debug symbols for the following lines that we need to figure out exactly what's going wrong: #6 0x00007f9de3fc84c2 n/a (libKGlobalAccelD.so.0 + 0x264c2) #10 0x00007f9de2be1f89 n/a (libQt6DBus.so.6 + 0x44f89) #22 0x0000557828148763 n/a (/bin/kwin_wayland + 0x3f763) Could you please install debug packages and attach a new symbolicated backtrace generated by using `coredumpctl gdb` in a terminal window? See https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Debugging/How_to_create_useful_crash_reports#Retrieving_a_backtrace_using_coredumpctl for details about how to do this. Thanks again!
As a temporary workaround I just manually write all the apps and the shortcuts inside of ~/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc
This is fixed in Plasma 6.8 dev version, which has now reached KDE Linux. I assume as far as 6.7 is concerned, it's a matter of backporting the right fix. @TraceyC unfortunately I'm still struggling to get a proper stack trace. Is this still useful? (e.g. to pinpoint which code change needs to be backported) If so then I'll persevere :)
(In reply to pg_tips from comment #3) > This is fixed in Plasma 6.8 dev version, which has now reached KDE Linux. I > assume as far as 6.7 is concerned, it's a matter of backporting the right > fix. > > @TraceyC unfortunately I'm still struggling to get a proper stack trace. Is > this still useful? (e.g. to pinpoint which code change needs to be > backported) If so then I'll persevere :) No need to struggle! If the bug has been fixed, that's the important thing. I'll close this out, since you've verified the fix.