On Thu, 2025-04-24 at 05:18 +0000, Johannes Krottmayer wrote: > Settings->Shortcuts->Plasma->Activate Application Launcher Widget > > On my system (running Debian 12) there was ALT-F1 predefined for > opening the KDE menu.
Aha! I didn't know that mapping was already there. This works for me, so I don't need to worry how to use "Pause" instead. I tried adding "Pause" anyway. If an XTerm has keyboard forus, instead of launching the Application Menu, it prints a tilde. In other applications, it does nothing. But Alt-Pause does work. Thanks to Johannes for pointing this out.