On 04/05/2020 10:23, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> Those \t entries were a red herring.
> From a cursory look through the code I see that \t is indeed a separator used
> by
> kglobalaccel to multiple separate key combinations assigned to the same action
> and type (default, custom). Not sure if the UI supports such multiple
> combinations, but the backend certainly does.
>
> Anyway, more importantly, simply restarting kglobalaccel ('kquitapp5
> kglobalaccel ; kglobalaccel5 &') fixes the meta key shortcuts, no need to edit
> kglobalshortcutsrc.
>
> So, it must be something in startup code of some kde/plasma component that
> messes up "Meta" key.
> But what and how?..
Good news.
After a recent update from 5.18.4.1 to 5.18.5 the problem is gone.
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Andriy Gapon
