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Posted: **Sun Dec 05, 2021 8:49 am**

Been trying to enjoy MX21 KDE flavor, however little things keep breaking. I'm running on a Thinkpad T460s 20gb ram. First go LUKS kept throwing errors, I just went ahead and re-installed. Now I'm having issues w/ the Meta/Win key no longer opening the start menu, worked briefly after the clean install. I've tried assigning it under Application Menu/Keyboard shortcuts, but it wants more than just the meta key(i.e. Meta + "L" works just fine). Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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System:
  Host: <filter> Kernel: 5.10.0-9-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-9-amd64 
  root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.20.5 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM 
  Distro: MX-21_KDE_x64 Wildflower October 20  2021 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 20F9003GUS v: ThinkPad T460s 
  serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: LENOVO model: 20F9003GUS v: SDK0J40705 WIN serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: LENOVO v: N1CET79W (1.47 ) date: 11/25/2019 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 12.3 Wh condition: 12.3/23.5 Wh (52%) 
  volts: 11.6/11.4 model: SMP 00HW023 type: Li-poly serial: <filter> 
  status: Full 
  ID-2: BAT1 charge: 13.8 Wh condition: 13.8/26.3 Wh (52%) 
  volts: 12.6/11.4 model: SANYO 01AV405 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> 
  status: Full 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-6300U bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Skylake family: 6 model-id: 4E (78) stepping: 3 microcode: EA 
  L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx 
  bogomips: 19999 
  Speed: 562 MHz min/max: 400/3000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 562 2: 628 
  3: 711 4: 716 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, 
  SMT vulnerable 
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: 
  conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
  Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] vendor: Lenovo 
  driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:1916 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: modesetting 
  unloaded: fbdev,vesa compositor: kwin_x11 resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 520 (SKL GT2) 
  v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Lenovo 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:9d70 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.0-9-amd64 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Lenovo driver: e1000e 
  v: kernel port: efa0 bus ID: 00:1f.6 chip ID: 8086:156f 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Intel Wireless 8260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: efa0 
  bus ID: 04:00.0 chip ID: 8086:24f3 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 45.24 GiB (4.9%) 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: WDS100T2B0C-00PXH0 
  size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B 
  speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: 211070WD scheme: GPT 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw size: 92.33 GiB size: 90.32 GiB (97.82%) 
  used: 7.70 GiB (8.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 
  ID-2: /home raw size: 830.93 GiB size: 816.81 GiB (98.30%) 
  used: 37.54 GiB (4.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 
  ID-3: swap-1 size: 8.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap 
  swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache pressure: 100 (default) 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 
Repos:
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
  1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
  1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
  2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
  1: deb [arch=amd64] https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
  1: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
  2: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/repo/ bullseye ahs
Info:
  Processes: 205 Uptime: 10h 15m Memory: 19.28 GiB 
  used: 2.77 GiB (14.4%) Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 
  Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Shell: quick-system-in 
  running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36

Posted: **Fri Dec 17, 2021 6:06 am**

Hello. I'm a noob. First post!

I had the same issue while doing some things after an install just recently. I was just messing with kde in different ways.

Anyway, get to app menu settings again, right click, then configure, keyboard shortcuts, then none or whatever it may say, then super/meta/windows key plus spacebar. apply. Reward!

Some searching will also recommend other combinations that will work also. All will allow the use with only the single key being pressed. Spacebar worked for me. I hope it works for you!

Posted: **Thu Dec 23, 2021 4:31 pm**

Take a look into settings Hardware->Input Devices->Keyboard
I have the Generic 101 key selected, that works fine. Also take a look there in the advanced tab. For me it looks as this is the place where you could disable the menu behavior.

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Posted: **Thu Dec 23, 2021 5:13 pm**

If LUKS throws errors I would check the harddrive (use something like gsmartcontrol)

As for the Meta, usually you just need to reset the control for '"Activate Application Menu Widget", when you set Alt-F1, Meta also works (not sure why but it does, maybe Plasma has an alias somewhere for Alt-F1 = Meta).

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