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nathanb

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Registered: 2011-11-28

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Some meta shortcuts don't work under Plasma 5

On KDE4, I had a number of shortcuts configured as Meta+[whatever], and all was well. An example would be that the launcher popped up with Meta+Space.

On KDE5, most of these don't work. Some do (Meta+arrow key switches desktops nicely, as always) but most don't.

When I go to the global shortcuts configuration, it's recognizing the key combo and saving it as the combination for that action. But then it's not performing the action (the keypress seems to get sent to the focused application as though the meta key weren't pressed).

Any thoughts on how I can fix this?

arch_nemesis

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Registered: 2008-12-19

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Re: Some meta shortcuts don't work under Plasma 5

I have the same issue, but as I'm on a fresh install I haven't checked too deeply into it - just wanted to let you know it's not just you. 

I have meta-numpad 1, 7, 9, 3 set up to tile windows to whichever corner, but it doesn't seem to want to work.  Like you meta-arrow works fine for me.

nathanb

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Re: Some meta shortcuts don't work under Plasma 5

Thanks for chiming in! Most of what I found when Googling was people trying to use the Meta key by itself as a shortcut. Hopefully someone knows how to solve our problem.