On Plasma 5, I could use every extra key on my keyboard: multi media keys, calculator, e-mail, browser, eject cd, and many more. There are even user definable keys on my keyboard, that I could set to customizable shortcuts, like filling in a form field by field, or just printing some text at any point that the cursor was active.
Now that Neon prematurely updated to Plasma 6, all these keys don’t work any more. Which is a real bummer and very frustrating!
Rumours have it that Kglobalaccel should be able to provide this functionality at least partially. But how? I can’t find any howto or instruction for this. All of the appropriate keys are recognized by xev, so the system should be able to use them. I am not using Wayland, I want to stick with X11 for a while. But the keys are not usable on Wayland, either.
Can any one help me to make the keys working again?
I can confirm this on wayland too (and x11).
I just tried it and my calculator key does not work and I can not find a way to bind it in the shortcuts settings.
My volume (globally), skip, play/pause works in for example elisa, but the calculator key I can not get to work.
I would assume this is known issue since it is a pretty obvious big thing, but maybe an extra check should be performed by us.
I lack the time right now but I will try to make time to check for bug reports/know issues later this evening and if needed make a bug report.
Oh, I’m sorry. Just checked, and the fix requires Qt 6.6.3, which is scheduled to be released on 2024-03-22. So looks like we need to wait for that, then verify if your problems are indeed fixed.
