I'm using Garuda's distro and the latte-dock on the KDE plasma desktop, I'm french which means I'm using "azerty" keyboard layout.
When I use the GUI to change my shortcuts in

shortcuts > Latte Dock > New instance for Entry 1

I press "Meta+é". "é" is the special character of the "2" key (above "a" and "z")

I don't know why but the system auto correct it by entering "É" instead (maybe for design purposes ?). Therefore the shortcut becomes "Meta+É" instead of the "Meta+é" I just entered.
The problem is that the "É" key doesn't exists ! Thus the shortcut is not working.

I thought : "ok it's not a problem, I'm gonna edit the config file".
Thus I went and edited

~/.config/kglobalshortcutrc

Saved the file.
I check the GUI : nothing changed. I try the shortcut : not working

Apparently for the changes to be taken into account you have to restart kglobalaccel (see the last comment here : https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/6 ... fig_files/)

So in a terminal I typed

kquitapp5 kglobalaccel && sleep 2s && kglobalaccel5&

Which automatically updates my kglobalshortcutrc file and put back the É instead of the é character !

I'm new to linux and I'm trying to troubleshoot this issue for 3 days already, can someone help me ?

Hello, I'm having the exact same problem : AZERTY layout binds me "É" instead of "é", so the shortkey doesn"t work. Is there a way to prevent the uppercase ?

I am having the same issue. Is there any workaround ?

Any news? Same problem here, it seems there is a problem with plasma shortcuts and "azerty" keyboards

I use azerty ( B ) too but I can't reproduce the issue. Not sure if there's a difference in French or Belgian azerty, which mine is set to. As a sidenote, you could use the longpress function which pops up a character option window ( like typing on a smartphone) but that function seems to kill a few other characters on azerty. A better option, as long as the issue isn't solved (or overall, instead of having to use the meta or other third level key at all) is to install kcharselect. It has a gnome counterpart as well, but since you're on kde...
https://imgur.com/a/qeE2yNa Loads of characters, bookmark functions.... It doesn't solve the main problem, but..

I'm having the same issue with belgium azerty, for now I have fixed it by changing my keyboard layout to have É instead of é but it's still a bit of an ugly solution

to do this you need to edit your keyboard layout file, this is most likely located at

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/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/fr

(or change the fr to be for belgium azerty)

on the 10th line you'll find something like

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key <AE02>  { [    eacute,          2,   asciitilde,    oneeighth ] };

there you change the "eacute" to "Eactue" and then the key will be 'É' after rebooting

I personally changed the "oneeighth" to be eacute instead because I'll never need that anyways and having the é can be useful, it's not ideal but it does make the shortcut work