Wayland globalmenu shortcuts doesn't work

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As in title shortcuts with globalmenu doesn’t work. Unless i minimize app or click taskbar beyond global menu.

Also i tried :
QT_LOGGING_RULES=“org.kde.plasma.appmenu.debug=true” plasmashell
And it resulted in very interesting log evertime when trying alt+f in dolphin:

qt.qpa.wayland: Failed to create grabbing popup. Ensure popup QWidgetWindow(0x558f3e07d540, name=“QMenuClassWindow”) has a transientParent set and that parent window has received input

Operating System: CachyOS Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.20.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Kernel Version: 6.17.9-2-cachyos (64-bit)

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In gimp shortcuts seem to work with x11 backend enabled.
GDA_BACKEND=x11 gimp

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Wayland don’t support global shortcuts by security reasons in their protocols.

But it supports global shortcuts defined in System Settings—>Keyboard—>Shortcuts:

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Regards

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It implements global shortcuts differently.

Instead of sending all keyboard input to all applications which ask for it, applications can ask for specific keyboard shortcuts to be sent to them.

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There are a couple of things that can mess it up though, if you set your Window Decoration to have the Application Menu on the titlebar, then Global Menu will fail…

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So make sure you check your settings thoroughly… I was shocked to see I had the same issue, until I remember taking screenshots with Material (LIM) decoration yesterday, which disabled my other menus even after changing the decoration back to Klassy.

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I don’t have application menu on titlebar, window menu also. So it doesn’t help. I use klassy window decoration but i don’t think that it matters.

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Also i tried test what happens when i click alt+f, alt+e etc
dbus-monitor “interface=‘org.kde.kappmenu’” “interface=‘com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar’”
Output:

signal time=1764662495.051410 sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> destination=:1.235 serial=4294967295 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=NameAcquired
   string ":1.235"
signal time=1764662495.051428 sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> destination=:1.235 serial=4294967295 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=NameLost
   string ":1.235"
signal time=1764662496.887161 sender=:1.23 -> destination=(null destination) serial=523 path=/KAppMenu; interface=org.kde.kappmenu; member=showRequest
   string ":1.204"
   object path "/MenuBar/2"
   int32 1
signal time=1764662497.943280 sender=:1.23 -> destination=(null destination) serial=524 path=/KAppMenu; interface=org.kde.kappmenu; member=showRequest
   string ":1.204"
   object path "/MenuBar/2"
   int32 1
signal time=1764662573.284531 sender=:1.23 -> destination=(null destination) serial=526 path=/KAppMenu; interface=org.kde.kappmenu; member=showRequest
   string ":1.204"
   object path "/MenuBar/2"
   int32 24
signal time=1764662654.458874 sender=:1.23 -> destination=(null destination) serial=527 path=/KAppMenu; interface=org.kde.kappmenu; member=showRequest
   string ":1.204"
   object path "/MenuBar/2"
   int32 50