I had been using KDE on Netrunner for some time and recently installed the current Kubuntu version (21.04 Hirsute Hippo). I have discovered an issue with the KDE custom keyboard shortcuts and wondered if anyone had seen this or know what causes it.

First, I'm using a standard US Generic 104-key layout. There's nothing special about this keyboard and I've used it with Netrunner and other systems without this issue. I have also tested this issue with different PC keyboards and the results are the same.

I've created some keyboard shortcuts in System Settings for sending text output. Some of them are passwords, and I'm working in a secure environment where I'm using over a dozen different credentials multiple time per day, so this feature is pretty critical, especially for this old brain.

Here's the issue that has suddenly begun in KDE and for the life of me, I can't figure out why:

If I create a keyboard input shortcut, and assign a letter to the keyboard trigger, the first instance of the letter used in the trigger will not be sent with the output.

Example: I used the keyboard trigger Alt-Shift-F to send the output "FooBar" using:

Shift+f:o:o:Shift+b:a:r:Enter

Saving and executing the trigger sends this:

ooBar

It doesn't matter if I use the shift or leave it in lower case. No matter what, only the first instance of the trigger letter is not sent. For example, if I change the Action setting to this:

f:o:o:Shift+f:a:r:Enter

executing Alt-Shift-F sends:

ooFar

Changing the trigger letter to something not contained in the output string works perfectly.

Now, the easy solution would be to use a different letter, but using the specific letter as a mnemonic is part of the reason I do this the way I do. Each trigger has a letter that relates to the specific output to send. Besides, this worked for a very long time in different versions of KDE and Plasma. I use KDE specifically for features such as this, so something is apparently broken. I've tried different triggers, such as Meta-Alt-F (Meta is the Win key on this keyboard), but the result is the same.

I haven't done any key reassignment; everything is on the defaults.

Anyone experience this (or can anyone duplicate this) or have a possible solution?

Thanks in advance.

You should report this to https://bugs.kde.org