https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468168
Bug ID: 468168
Summary: Erratic behavior shift+click task to start new
application instance
Classification: Plasma
Product: plasmashell
Version: 5.27.3
Platform: openSUSE
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: Task Manager and Icons-Only Task Manager
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: m...@ericvanblokland.nl
Target Milestone: 1.0
SUMMARY
I am used to click on a task holding down the shift key in the task manager to
start a new instance of an application. Since a few months (probably started
when I was switched to Wayland by default) the results are unpredictable.
For a while it wil just work, then suddenly after I have opened a new task this
way, I can no longer switch tasks by clicking on applications in the task
manager because a new instance of an application gets started as if I were
holding down the shift key. After (shift) clicking around a bit, task switching
may become possible again, but shift-clicking to start a new application
instance stops working altogether. I have observed that some more clicking can
eventually restore normal behavior.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Some arbitrary combination of clicking and shift-clicking tasks in the task
manager.
(I just realized it might have something to do with whether or not I click on
the icon of the task, but I'm not near that machine right now so I can't test.
I will update this report if I find more reliable steps to reproduce)
OBSERVED RESULT
Task switching by clicking a task becomes impossible, a new instance keeps
getting launched.
- or -
Launching a new application instance by holding shift doesn't work anymore.
EXPECTED RESULT
- Reliably switch task by clicking it.
- Reliably start a new application instance by holding down shift and clicking
a task.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.3
KDE Frameworks Version:
Qt Version:
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