https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523053

--- Comment #3 from [email protected] ---
To clarify my setup: I don't have icons directly on a full-screen desktop
containment — I have Folder View **widgets** positioned in the corners of each
screen (icons in the upper-left of each screen, plus a separate `/data1/tmp`
Folder View widget in the lower-right of the right screen).

Given your note that KRunner-via-typing only works on the desktop itself and
not inside a Folder View widget, I initially wondered if this was just normal
focus behavior (focus moving into the widget on click). I retested precisely to
check:

1. Fresh boot, fully loaded: typing does nothing at all (presumably no focus
yet — expected).
2. Click blank desktop space (outside any widget): typing now correctly opens
KRunner.
3. Single-click inside a Folder View widget (on the widget itself, not even an
icon): typing stops opening KRunner.
4. Click blank desktop space again: typing still does **not** open KRunner —
instead, Folder View type-ahead activates, even on blank space, even though I'm
no longer interacting with the widget at all.

Step 4 is the key result: if this were normal focus-ownership (typing belongs
to whatever you last clicked), returning focus to blank space in step 4 should
have restored KRunner, the same as step 2. It didn't. This tells me the desktop
containment itself gets stuck in type-ahead mode after any interaction with a
Folder View widget, persisting even once you click away from that widget — and
only clears on reboot. That's not "focus is legitimately elsewhere," it's the
desktop containment's own state getting corrupted by a widget interaction.

Separately: even setting root cause aside, this layout (Folder View widgets
rather than a full-screen desktop containment) worked correctly on Fedora 43.
There's no setting I've found to restore the old typing-to-KRunner behavior on
44/6.7.1 given this layout, which seems worth tracking as a regression
regardless of what the underlying mechanism turns out to be.

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