It doesn’t show up when I start typing, i need to call it explicitly. NO, the activation on keypress is not disabled.
Which isn’t a big deal but it used to work normally. Idk what happened, it use to work like a month or two ago but then it stopped and I got busy so i didn’t bother asking (it worked when I used the shortcut so…).
i would look at what kwin scripts you have enabled in settings > desktop effects
perhaps one of those in consuming the keypress
Not many, actually. In fact the only two that has a keyboard shortcut are Cube and Overview, that too they are set at their default keys.
A sidenote, I checked the Applications that were running and saw this “ Problem Reporting “ app. I checked it and it has like 19 crash records of various apps dating from yesterday to 2 months ago.
I am very new to this ( I am learning), but Fedora and KDE has been working flawlessly for me, even with these crashes in the background I haven’t noticed a thing in my daily usage. I think it’s time i start diving deeper and understanding the workings of the OS better, right?
those crash reports are most helpful when you can provide some context for what happened right before the crash.
so i would close that instance and keep an eye on the task manager for when the crash report window comes up, then follow the steps.
What if I tell you that nothing happened!?
I mean it seriously, everything is and was just working as fine as it could. Like for example the oldest crash report which was 2 months ago was about Spectacle crashing and I remember being surprised cause I was actively using Spectacle, it didn’t crash, it didn’t close, in fact i was able to save the screenshot i took.
I just overlooked it as some bug cause everything was working fine and it still is.
I am pretty sure that i didn’t install any malware either cause everything i downloaded was from the Kde store and Kde developed applications or steam.
Still, I’ll search if i have, I’ll search up what applications and software i have and see if anything is fishy.
it it comes up again, ask about it here, and someone can probably help.
but you should be aware that the KDE store is not KDE software… it is 3rd party software created by users like you and me with varying levels of skill and quality control.
if you are new, i would avoid adding things from the store until you are familiar with how things are supposed to work and the first step in troubleshooting should be to remove those add-ons or better yet roll back to a snapshot before you installed them.
Oh, my bad. I didn’t explain myself properly.
I don’t have anything from the KDE store, I only install Fedora updates from the store, which unless they don’t come from Fedora then I’ve been installing it wrong ( apologies Tim apple).
Other than that, i only have the default kde software that Fedora KDE comes with and Blender. Even the RPM package for steam i read thoroughly about and then installed.
I downloaded Kdenlive & Neovim through the terminal via the dnf command which I guess refers to the official repositories. I installed Jetbrains toolbox from a zip from the official website, that too after reading the instructions.
I am taking this switch to linux very slow, mostly cause i want to learn but also cause I want to switch to this permanently and I understand that i can’t and shouldn’t paste random commands and do stuff unknowingly. And it has been going great this way, KDE is great, Fedora is great no complains. This is really just a " I want to learn about this " post than " I don’t like this, why is this like that " post.
Thank you for you time btw.
this is the kind of behavior carried over from windows that gets new users into trouble.
i don’t know what the instructions told you to do, but installing a package from outside the official repositories is likely going to put the stability of your system at risk (or worse).
dnf of your official repository is the low fruit you should always reach for first.
flatpak or snap would be my next choice if the package is not available or if it’s an older version that does not have the feature you need.
keep in mind that not all flatpaks are “verified” so that is something to look for.
an appimage is often the easiest way to get the latest release, but only get them from the official channel used by the developer (github, their website, etc).
if none of that satisfies you then you can always get the source code from the developer and compile it yourself on your machine to ensure you have not introduced any unwanted code.
the absolute LAST resort would be downloading an executable file from the interwebs and installing it via some “instruction” they provide… that’s best left to the windows user crowd.