Bug 1259805

Summary:	keyboard shortcut Switch to Next Screen stopped working in RHEL 7.2
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Jeff Bastian <jbastian>
Component:	kde-workspace	Assignee:	Jan Grulich <jgrulich>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version:	7.2	CC:	jbastian
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Description Jeff Bastian 2015-09-03 14:36:22 UTC

Description of problem:
I have a keyboard shortcut configured for "Switch to Next Screen" in KDE; this toggles focus between my two monitors. This was working fine in RHEL 7.1, but it broke when I updated to RHEL 7.2 Beta.

(I also have Switch to Window Above/Below/Left/Right shortcuts and these five shortcuts make kwin feel like a tiling window manager, e.g., i3 or xmonad.)


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kde-workspace-4.11.19-6.el7.x86_64
kdelibs-4.14.8-4.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to KDE System Settings -> Shortcuts and Gestures -> Global Keyboard
   Shortcuts -> KWin
2. set a shortcut for Switch to Next Screen
3. Apply
4. use the new shortcut

Actual results:
nothing

Expected results:
focus toggles to other screen

Additional info:
shortcuts for Switch to Screen 0, Screen 1, etc. also fail

Comment 2 Jan Grulich 2015-09-08 14:15:09 UTC

Works for me on a freshly installed RHEL 7.2 beta. I tried to configure all shortcuts you mentioned and it worked pretty well.

Comment 3 Jeff Bastian 2015-09-08 17:26:58 UTC

I created a test user account with a clean home directory and tried again and I still see the same problem.  Maybe it's an issue with my system since I started with RHEL 7.0 Alpha yum updated all the way through to 7.2 Beta...  I'll see if I can do a fresh installation on a system with two monitors.

Comment 4 Jan Grulich 2015-09-08 19:53:25 UTC

I haven't tried to use multiple monitors, I was trying just to switch between virtual desktops and switching to window below / above. I'll try to test switching between screens tomorrow.

Comment 5 Jeff Bastian 2015-09-08 20:42:26 UTC

Ahh, yes, the other keys all work fine.  It's only switching focus from one screen (monitor) to another that broke.

It might be possible to test this with a virtual machine:
  https://access.redhat.com/discussions/1363063

Comment 6 Jan Grulich 2015-09-09 08:05:48 UTC

I managed to make it work, you just need to go to System settings → Window behavior → Window Behavior (on the left side) → Check "Separate screen focus". Could you please confirm that this works also for you?

Comment 7 Jeff Bastian 2015-09-09 13:52:39 UTC

That worked!  Thank you!

I didn't need to do this in RHEL 7.1, so I wonder what changed?  I'm sorry for not figuring this out myself.

Comment 8 Jan Grulich 2015-09-09 14:06:37 UTC

We did rebase of kde-workspace so this is probably a new kwin feature.