So I tried things out for my first time with KDE and Manjaro. I switched the panel, then i could not switch it back to the original.
So I made another, deleted the original one at the bottom, and then created another at the bottom, and deleted the one at the top. And now, the application launcher does not open with Meta key.
I have 4 instances of application launcher in Plasma shortcuts. I tried to set Alt+F1 for all of them. My application launcher opened with Alt+F1 assigned to each of the 4 instances, but never with the meta keyâŚ
You canât do that, meta key is a modifier, thereâs no way to add âMetaâ as a shortcut. Alt+F1 should be replacing meta as a shortcut, but it doesnât.
Yes, this happens. If I create a TEST user, then again (vanilla KDE) the panel WILL open with Meta key, but after thatâs lost itâs hard to work out how to get it back.
In the end, I settled for Meta+Z for that menu
Donât forget, just typing on desktop works with krunner. If youâre using floating (traditional) windows, then you can press Meta_D to go desktop and type, or you can press Alt_Space to pull up krunner on top.
There is a tutorial in the forum somewhere - I guess time to go search it out again - about bringing back Meta-menu, but it failed quickly for me (maybe the first time I do anything in Latte dock, it wonât open again).
In the meantime I did find an old solution (which is still being updated). Step 1, reset your menu (mineâs in Latte) to Alt+F1âŚ
Step 2. Install ksuperkey 0.4-2 (Wed 17th March 2021)
Step 3. from Krunner, start ksuperkey.
Meta pulls down the menu again.
You have to set ksuperkey to autostart on login though.
Hi. This is kind of related and something I wanted to share. Iâm running pure Arch Linux with KDE Plasma 5.21.5 but I imagine will be the same for Manjaro KDE users given Arch is its basis. I wanted to make the (windows) meta key keypress alone (default is ctrl+F10) display the KDE Plasma âPresent All Windowsâ view, which is kind of the nearest Plasma equivalent to default meta key behavior in Gnome which displays the Gnome âActivities Overviewâ. ie both DEâs show all open windows via these two functions arranged as kind of a interactive patchwork across the entire screen so the user can select a running application. Anyway, I got Plasma to display âPresent All Windowsâ by pressing the meta key alone by issuing the following in the terminal to modify the kwinrc file:
kwriteconfig5 --file ~/.config/kwinrc --group ModifierOnlyShortcuts --key Meta âorg.kde.kglobalaccel,/component/kwin,org.kde.kglobalaccel.Component,invokeShortcut,ExposeAllâ
Then issue the following in terminal to reconfigure and restart kwin for the above mod:
qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin reconfigure
This shifts the shortcut windows key âmetaâ from the default âApplication Launcherâ to instead open the Plasma âPresent All Windowsâ view. This is something I find myself using all the time so is very useful to have meta key attached to that function.
I still need ksuperkey to get mine to work. The toughest part sometimes is just to assign Alt+F1 shortcut to the menu, sometimes it just wonât stick.
