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On 2026-07-20T13:01:59+00:00 Kai Kasurinen wrote:

Summary / Title:
Global shortcuts fail when using dbus-broker due to hardcoded dbus-send 
dependency in .desktop files

Component:
general

Description:
In systems using dbus-broker as the D-Bus daemon (or lightweight/minimal setups 
where Recommends packages are not installed), shortcuts defined in 
/usr/share/kglobalaccel/ fail because they depend on dbus-send being available 
in $PATH.

When triggered via kglobalaccel, these calls fail with KIO/Wayland errors:
kwin_wayland_wrapper[...]: kf.kio.gui: "dbus-send" "Command not found"

Affected files identified (examples):

KScreen:
/usr/share/kglobalaccel/org.kde.kscreen.desktop (Exec uses dbus-send ...)

Plasma Desktop / Touchpad:
/usr/share/kglobalaccel/org.kde.touchpadshortcuts.desktop (Exec uses dbus-send 
...)

Expected behavior:
Global shortcuts should use native D-Bus integration, C++ helper logic, or 
qdbus instead of assuming the external dbus-send binary (from legacy dbus 
utilities / dbus-bin) is present on the host system.

Actual behavior:
Shortcuts fail to execute if dbus-send is missing from the host environment.

Additional Information / Context:
Downstream Ubuntu bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/2161278

Reply at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kscreen/+bug/2161278/comments/3


** Changed in: kscreen
       Status: Unknown => New

** Changed in: kscreen
   Importance: Unknown => Medium

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