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Plasma 6 (Wayland) requests "Remote Control" when clicking VeraCrypt system tray icon
Hello everyone,
I'm opening this thread to ask about a strange and highly reproducible issue I'm experiencing on my Arch Linux system running KDE Plasma 6.
Every time I left-click the VeraCrypt icon in the system tray, instead of showing the application window or a context menu, the desktop presents a permission prompt titled "Remote control requested", asking for access to "Input devices".
System Environment
Operating System: Arch Linux, fully up-to-date (sudo pacman -Syu).
Desktop Environment: KDE Plasma 6.
Display Server: Wayland.
Application: VeraCrypt 1.26.7.
Steps to Reproduce
Launch VeraCrypt. Its icon appears correctly in the system tray.
Left-click the VeraCrypt icon in the system tray.
Expected Behavior
The main VeraCrypt application window should be focused, or its context menu should appear.
Actual Behavior
Immediately after every click, the Plasma permission prompt appears. If I click "Cancel," nothing else happens. Clicking the tray icon again simply re-triggers the prompt.
Additional Analysis
I've ruled out malware, as the issue is exclusively and directly tied to this specific GUI action. My primary suspicion is that this is a bug in the interaction between VeraCrypt (which is not a native Qt6/KDE application), the Plasma 6 system tray, and the Wayland security portal (xdg-desktop-portal-kde). It seems as if the action of querying the application window via the tray icon is being misinterpreted as a request to capture screen or input events.
Has anyone else experienced something similar with VeraCrypt or other legacy tray applications? Is this a known bug?
Sorry, I'm new and I don't know how to upload images yet.
Thanks in advance for any insight or guidance.
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