krunner 6.3 misbehaves under sway window manager

Hello,

I’ve been very happily using krunner (and other KDE applications) but with sway as my window manager for many years. Other than some oddities with window positioning krunner 5 has served me very well as my launcher and I love it.

I’m finally getting around to upgrading to plasma 6 and everything else is working well, but krunner is super unhappy with running under not-kwin. (I’ve tested everything under plasmashell and it all works fine).

The two main issues I have are:

  1. krunner does not take focus when it opens, and if I click into the text box it looses focus again as soon as I type any character in the box. Also sometimes krunner will just close after typing a character unless I have it “pinned” open.
  2. The application search isn’t working, no applications are found for any search.

I appreciate this isn’t “typical” usage, but I would be really greatful if people could guide me into figuring out if this is a krunner bug, a sway bug or some combination of the two so I can open helpful issues where they need to be.

Thanks!

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Hi! Sorry I don’t have much direct advice, just confirmation that you’re not alone in running into issues like that with trying to combine those different components: https://www.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/1bhnqsx/krunner_not_getting_focus/