Hi there,

I should admit, I haven't dug up the forum completely, but a first couple pages didn't show an answer to my question.

I have two Systems (dual boot on my Framework laptop): but both use the same /home partition and show the same problem:
- Kubuntu 20.04.3 LTS - recent LTS release.
- Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS with kde desktop.

On Pop!_OS, KDE system information shows:
Operating System: Pop!_OS 20.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.68.0
Qt Version: 5.12.8
Kernel Version: 5.15.8-76051508-generic
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 8 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz
Memory: 62.6 GiB of RAM

In "Edit Applications", several shortcut keys are set. For example Meta+W for Brave Browser:


In `.config/kglobalshortcutsrc` there is a section with corresponding key

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[brave-browser.desktop]
_k_friendly_name=Brave Web Browser
_launch=Meta+W,none,Launch Brave Web Browser


In the list of global shortcuts, this shortcut is also present


But Meta-W does nothing.

Standard debug step returns empty line

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$kreadconfig5 --file .config/kglobalshortcutsrc --group brave-browser.desktop --key _launch



However, shortcut for the dolphin in the list of global shortcuts, I guess default shortcut, works pretty well.


How can I debug this issue, and what can cause it?

This was a known bug prior to 5.78 apparently.
Maybe this helps? https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=166079

Thank you for the reply and the link.

I did both suggested tricks with no luck.

Can I do any steps to help debug this problem? Or should I just wait until they update KDE

Uhm..well, kde frameworks is in the 80's number these days. This one I'm typing on is a kubuntu 21.10 with frameworks 5.86. You're using an older version. You could either wait a veeeery long time or get yourself a younger version. If you want a kubuntu, that would be the 21.10 currently. There might be some workaround for that issue, but it's been around for a while prior to 5.78.