KRunner (KDE "Run Command") global keybinding broken after upgrade to 20.03 (+ workaround)

[joepie91]

Describe the bug After upgrading from 19.09 to 20.03, the KRunner global keybinding (alt+space) no longer works.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Upgrade to 20.03
2. Boot into KDE Plasma
3. Press Alt+Spacebar
4. eerie and uncomfortable silence, nothing happens

Expected behavior The command runner dialog should come up at the top of the screen.

Screenshots N/A

Additional context The problem appears to be that the global keybinding entry was changed somehow, in the "Global Shortcuts" KDE settings panel.

The keybinding was still set for "Run Command":

But there is now also a "KRunner" entry in "Application Launchers", which did not have any keybindings set, despite exposing the same actions:

Assigning the keybinding to "KRunner" instead of "Run Command" fixes the issue.

Notify maintainers

@nyanloutre @ttuegel

Metadata

• system: "x86_64-linux"
• host os: Linux 5.4.41, NixOS, 20.03.1896.025deb80b24 (Markhor)
• multi-user?: yes
• sandbox: no
• version: nix-env (Nix) 2.3.4
• channels(sven): ""
• channels(root): "nixos-20.03.1896.025deb80b24"
• nixpkgs: /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos

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I marked this as stale due to inactivity. → More info

[FliegendeWurst]

Works for me on 21.11 without any workarounds.