Tray menu not activated by shortcut key unless copyq main window is focused

Describe the bug

The tray menu is not activated using a shortcut key unless the copyq main window is the focused window, since updating to kde 6.5.2. If another window is focused the shortcut key does nothing.

To Reproduce

Install KDE 6.5.2
Set a keyboard shortcut for the tray menu (setting in copyq does not work for me, so I set a custom shortcut in kde for the 'copyq menu' command)
Trigger the shortcut over any focused window that is not copyq - the tray menu does not appear
Trigger it over the copyq main window, or when it is focused, menu appears

Expected behavior

The tray menu should always appear when the shortcut key is pressed. Worked in kde 6.4.10

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Version, OS and Environment

CopyQ Clipboard Manager 13.0.0
Qt: 6.10.0
KNotifications: 6.19.0
Compiler: GCC
Arch: x86_64-little_endian-lp64

Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed-Slowroll 20251106
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0
Qt Version: 6.10.0
Kernel Version: 6.17.7-1.0.12.sr20251001-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland

Installed from: obs://build.opensuse.org/home:AndnoVember due to #3276

Additional context

The log has this whenever I press the shortcut key:

[2025-11-20 16:04:03.869] Warning : [qt.qpa.wayland] Failed to create grabbing popup. Ensure popup QWidgetWindow(0x55852567d280, name="TrayMenuWindow") has a transientParent set and that parent window has received input.

Running copyq with QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb is a workaround

Perhaps related, perhaps not. I am on Mint Cinnamon 6.4.8 and pressing Meta-V shortcut to show the tray menu does not work. However pressing V for the second time while holding meta does show the menu correctly ...

Same issue in wayland.

Warning: [qt.qpa.wayland] Failed to create grabbing popup. Ensure popup QWidgetWindow(0x557ace0496a0, name="TrayMenuWindow") has a transientParent set and that parent window has received input.

@tprotopopescu

@tprotopopescu: Can you clarify what you mean by "setting in copyq does not work for me"?
Were you already using Wayland before your update?

Yeah, this is a bug in Qt. See also: #3160

I thought reverting the flatpak runtime version back to 6.8 fixed this? Im running into this again...

I thought reverting the flatpak runtime version back to 6.8 fixed this? Im running into this again...

Oh, I guess QTBUG-139921 also affects Qt 6.10.

Not sure if going back to an old Qt is good solution. I think https://flathub.org started showing a warning about it.

Is this problem only in KDE?

I see the same issue with non-flatpak app on KDE Plasma 6.6.3 with Qt 6.10.2 (on Fedora 43):

[qt.qpa.wayland] Failed to create grabbing popup. Ensure popup  QWidgetWindow(0x116caed0, name="TrayMenuWindow") has a transientParent set and that parent window has received input.

Fix tray menu not showing on Wayland when triggered via shortcut

Workaround implemented in #3511.

Fix tray menu not showing on Wayland when triggered via shortcut

If you are affected and want to report that, please indicate:

Your CopyQ version (as usual)
Your display server
Your desktop environment (or window manager)
Your Qt version
If possible, whether you can reproduce QTBUG-139921. And if you are affected, please vote for it.

License

Workaround implemented in #3511.

Still running into the same issue
copyq version

flatpak run com.github.hluk.copyq -v
CopyQ Clipboard Manager 14.0.0
Qt: 6.10.2
KNotifications: 6.22.0
Compiler: GCC
Arch: x86_64-little_endian-lp64
OS: KDE Flatpak runtime
Audio: miniaudio 0.11.25

system info

Operating System: Bazzite 43
KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.24.0
Qt Version: 6.10.2
Kernel Version: 6.17.7-ba29.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core Processor
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (30.9 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE
Manufacturer: ASRock
Product Name: B650M Pro RS WiFi

EDIT: actually looks like the fix wasn't pushed to the latest FlatHub release yet?

@zany130

actually looks like the fix wasn't pushed to the latest FlatHub release yet?

@zany130 The fix has not been released yet.

Can you test the build from flathub/com.github.hluk.copyq#86 (the install command is mentioned in the comments)?

flatpak install --user https://dl.flathub.org/build-repo/270592/com.github.hluk.copyq.flatpakref

Yup works perfectly!

@paranoidi

@paranoidi wrote:

Perhaps related, perhaps not. I am on Mint Cinnamon 6.4.8 and pressing Meta-V shortcut to show the tray menu does not work. However pressing V for the second time while holding meta does show the menu correctly ...

For that, see #1267

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