Toggle Tiling shortcut (Meta+T) triggers after multiple presses

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The global shortcut Meta+T, which is assigned to Toggle Tiling (built-in KWin tiling system), does not activate reliably. The action often triggers only after multiple presses of the shortcut. No other action is assigned to Meta+T, and no KWin scripts (Bismuth, Krohnkite, etc.) are used.

The shortcut does not trigger on first press.

  1. Often it requires 2–5 presses before KWin enters tiling mode;
  2. Sometimes it activates and immediately deactivates (as if the shortcut was interpreted twice);
  3. No conflicting shortcuts exist;
  4. I had this problem before but it went away with updates, but now it reappeared

Operating System: KDE neon User Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.20.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Kernel Version: 6.14.0-36-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × Intel® Core™ i9-9900K CPU @ 3.60GHz
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31.3 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Product Name: Z370M DS3H

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i would try this with a different keyboard…. sounds hardware related.

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If there’s no available keyboard, you can at least confirm it by testing it with a new USER.

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I found the cause of my issue with Toggle Tiling: it’s related to having a secondary display enabled. When the secondary display is active, the tiling manager is not reliably activated with Meta + T. This appears to be a bug, so it probably needs a ticket to be filed.