Overview does not work

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KDE overview does not work.
Here is a video demonstrating this issue https://youtu.be/JUvAcp6_rLQ

Tried and nothing happens. Overview mode does not activate.
(1) Mouse push top left corner
(2) Keyboard shortcut Meta+W
(3) run qdbus-qt6 org.kde.kglobalaccel /component/kwin invokeShortcut Overview

All of the three methods work ok when booting from Fedora 42 LiveCD iso.
It just doesn’t work on my current Fedora 42 installation.
Seems to be misconfiguration, not bug.
How to troubleshoot?

Thanks.

Versions:
Fedora 42
plasma-desktop-6.3.5-1.fc42.x86_64
kwin-wayland-6.3.5-2.fc42.x86_64
libwayland-server-1.23.1-1.fc42.x86_64
kernel-6.14.6-300.fc42.x86_64

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if you think it’s something in your dot files, this approach will help you find it

# brute force troubleshooting...
mv ~/.config ~/.configBORKED
# logout and log back in again to force plasma to recreate the folder with default settings
dolphin --split ~/.config ~/.configBORKED
# copy back half of the BORKED folder contents at a time and relog to see if issue returns
# if it does, then delete the folder again, relog, and only copy half of that previous half
# repeat until the culprit is found, then finally, copy back everything BUT that culprit bit
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I created a fresh new account.
Then logged in the new account.
It does not work even in a new account.

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Hmm, is anything logged in the system journal when the issue happens? For example, if you tried the Overview shortcut at 4:30 PM today, you could use sudo journalctl --since="2025-05-23 16:29:00" --until="2025-05-23 16:31:00" to look at the surrounding couple of minutes and see if any crashes or errors are being reported there.

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Nope.

No log emitted. (youtu DOT be SLASH vkYkfbGz8WI) sudo journalctl --follow -n 0

qdbus no log either. qdbus-qt6 org.kde.kglobalaccel /component/kwin invokeShortcut Overview

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I tried installing all packages found in livecd iso

mkdir /var/tmp/x && cd $_ && 7z x ~/Downloads/Fedora-KDE-Desktop-Live-42-1.1.x86_64.iso
sudo mount -vo loop /var/tmp/x/LiveOS/squashfs.img /mnt
sudo chroot /mnt rpm --queryformat "%{NAME}\n" --query --all | xargs sudo dnf install --skip-broken
sudo umount -v /mnt

Now overview works.

I might have removed some package which should not be removed.