KDE Plasma - menu no longer opening with super/meta key
by boughtonp from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5280A)
Debian Buster, KDE Plasma 5.14.5
I used to be able to press the super/meta/win key and it would open KDE's Application Menu.
I have not upgraded nor (knowlingly) made any system changes but it has suddenly stopped working.
How do I figure out what caused the change - any chance it will it be in a log file somewhere?
If I right-click the menu, select configure then keyboard shortcuts, it shows the shortcut as Alt+F1 (which does indeed open the menu, but is not what I want).
Trying to change it just prompts Meta+... - but I don't want a multi-key shortcut, I want it back how it was.
Searching the web is resulting in a lot of waffle with very few attempted answers, and so far none are helping.
(I'm not installing ksuperkey or any other packages - it was working with what's currently installed, so there must be a fix that doesn't involve installing packages.)
I found a claim that setting the shortcut to Meta+F1 allows Meta alone to work, but it doesn't - it only changes it from Alt+F1 to Meta+F1 - Meta alone still doesn't open the menu.
I found a blog post which describes the feature but doesn't say how it can be turned on (or off)
https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/bl...in-plasma-5-8/
Buried in the comments is someone stating how to turn it off:
Quote:
So now I know to search for ModifierOnlyShortcuts I found this page:
https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/Tips...ndows-meta-key
There was no Meta entry in ~/.config/kwinrc, so I ran the suggested command:
Code:kwriteconfig5 --file ~/.config/kwinrc --group ModifierOnlyShortcuts --key Meta "org.kde.plasmashell,/PlasmaShell,org.kde.PlasmaShell,activateLauncherMenu"
qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin reconfigureIt still doesn't work. :(
I used to be able to press the super/meta/win key and it would open KDE's Application Menu.
I have not upgraded nor (knowlingly) made any system changes but it has suddenly stopped working.
How do I figure out what caused the change - any chance it will it be in a log file somewhere?
If I right-click the menu, select configure then keyboard shortcuts, it shows the shortcut as Alt+F1 (which does indeed open the menu, but is not what I want).
Trying to change it just prompts Meta+... - but I don't want a multi-key shortcut, I want it back how it was.
Searching the web is resulting in a lot of waffle with very few attempted answers, and so far none are helping.
(I'm not installing ksuperkey or any other packages - it was working with what's currently installed, so there must be a fix that doesn't involve installing packages.)
I found a claim that setting the shortcut to Meta+F1 allows Meta alone to work, but it doesn't - it only changes it from Alt+F1 to Meta+F1 - Meta alone still doesn't open the menu.
I found a blog post which describes the feature but doesn't say how it can be turned on (or off)
https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/bl...in-plasma-5-8/
Buried in the comments is someone stating how to turn it off:
Quote:
| So, I added: - [ModifierOnlyShortcuts] Meta= - in my ~/.config/kwinrc, and all was back to normal. |
So now I know to search for ModifierOnlyShortcuts I found this page:
https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/Tips...ndows-meta-key
There was no Meta entry in ~/.config/kwinrc, so I ran the suggested command:
Code:kwriteconfig5 --file ~/.config/kwinrc --group ModifierOnlyShortcuts --key Meta "org.kde.plasmashell,/PlasmaShell,org.kde.PlasmaShell,activateLauncherMenu"
qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin reconfigureIt still doesn't work. :(