KDE is usable after all

[pbek]

I can report that the cheap bluetooth mouse (5 keys + scroll wheel) https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32975453340.html works great under KDE on Debian 9.0 on my Gemini PDA.

[depscribe]

I'm discovering a bit of a shutdown problem witk KDE. The onscreen shutdown options in the KMenu and RMB click kill much but not all -- the mouse cursor remains and the machine doesn't shutdown. Is there a workaround? Have I missed something really obvious? The only way out I've found is to open Konsole and do [div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']sudo shutdown -h now[/div]
Pretty sure this isn't how it's supposed to work.<g>

[jornada720]

I'm discovering a bit of a shutdown problem witk KDE. The onscreen shutdown options in the KMenu and RMB click kill much but not all -- the mouse cursor remains and the machine doesn't shutdown. Is there a workaround? Have I missed something really obvious? The only way out I've found is to open Konsole and do [div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']sudo shutdown -h now[/div]
Pretty sure this isn't how it's supposed to work.<g>

You can only do a shutdown from the login manager.

[Lito]

So out of frustration with LXQt, I had not bothered using my Gemini much on the Linux side but I just came back to it recently.

It turns out that you can actually use KDE, you just have to make sure that its global keyboard shortcut daemon is not running.

You can find it within the KSysguard task manager. The process name is kglobalaccel5. Just kill it and your keyboard will work as normal.

If you don't want to have to keep killing the process, just have root make kglobalaccel5 non executable

sudo chmod 444 /usr/bin/kglobalaccel5

The downside of not running the global shortcut manager is that KWin shortcuts will no longer work. But on the other hand, KDE Plasma is much better suited for touch use and the task bar can actually be used, unlike in LXQt.

You can also set up KDE Plasma to put applications' menu bars inside of your panel and save vertical screen real estate.

I have tried this command (sudo chmod 444 /usr/bin/kglobalaccel5) but it didn't help, as a workaround I have renamed the  file located in ( usr/share/kservices5/kglobalaccel.desktop to kglobalaccel.jpg)
Maybe someone else is experiencing the same issue.

Cheers!