Package: kde-plasma-desktop Version: 5:142 I have a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000. It has buttons along the top for shortcuts to various applications and functions. I use one of them as a launcher for kcalc. When I assign a KDE keyboard shortcut key to it, it is labelled "Launch (1)" and it has a picture of a calculator on it.
When launching kcalc from one of the shortcut buttons, it will behave as if NumLock is off until I either toggle it off then on or click out of the application and back in. When launching kcalc from another shortcut, like Ctrl-Alt-K for example, the number pad will work correctly right away. If I launch kcalc from this button and press keys on the number pad, they will behave as if NumLock is off. PgUp/PgDn in the number pad will highlight the buttons in kcalc for C and AC in the application as if I were hitting the normal PgUp/PgDn keys. The operand keys (/ * - +) all also highlight the intended key in the application. Numbers will not type. I am reporting this against kde-plasma-desktop because it seems like it's deeper than kcalc. I tried using the old Debian Buster package of kcalc (installed in Bookworm), and it is also broken by whatever underlying KDE libraries are being used here. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Assign a shortcut to launcing kcalc for the "Launch (1)" button on my keyboard or any other shortcut button along the top of the keyboard. 2. Open kcalc with that shortcut key. OBSERVED RESULT 1. Press numbers and operands in the number pad. Operands will press the operand buttons in the kcalc window. Most numbers will be ignored. 9 will act like PgUp and press the C button in the application (as if NumLock was off). 3 will act like PgDn and press the AC button in the application (as if NumLock was off). 2. I can toggle NumLock off and on by pressing it twice, and then the number pad will work as expected. 2 (alternate). I can also just click to another window and then back to kcalc, and the number will work as expected. EXPECTED RESULT I expect kcalc to recognize the number pad presses as numbers as soon as it opens. OTHER VARIATIONS TRIED * This behavior was new when I upgraded from Debian 11 Bullseye to Debian 12 Bookworm. * I tried installing the Debian oldstable/11/Bullseye version of kcalc in Bookworm, and it didn't make a difference. Both versions of kcalc exhibited the above behavior, even though I'm sure the old version didn't exhibit this behavior when I was running Bullseye and whatever KDE version was there. * I created shortcuts to kcalc with other extra keyboard shortcut buttons, and I still get the weird NumLock behavior. It is not only the "Launch (1)" button exhibiting this broken behavior. * I created shortcuts to kcalc with "normal" keyboard keys, like Ctrl-Alt-K, and it behaves as expected. KCalc works correctly if launched from these "normal" key combinations, from the application launcher, from a konsole prompt, etc. * I created shortcuts to other applications with the built-in shortcut buttons, and the number pad works correctly right away in those programs. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0 Qt Version: 5.15.8 Kernel Version: 6.1.0-23-amd64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: offscreen Processors: 16 × Intel® Core™ i9-9880H CPU @ 2.30GHz Memory: 31.0 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 630
