Need to press buttons like - for a while to write them in apps directly from kde

I am on fedora kionite 40. My issue is that on my numpad, the buttons dont work unless i use shift. for things like minus i have to keep pressing down. plus does not work at all. This is only in relation to fedora directly installed apps like kwrite etc. It works normally in flatpak installed tools / virtual machines and such. I think an update broke something locally and I cannot figure out what. Its driving me insane:

in Kwrite: - works after holding down for a while or pressing shift.
same for plus.
numbers dont work at all.

I have the same layout as on my laptop. german no dead keys. in addition my normal keyboard setting is logitech cordless desktop. numlock is on by default