Can't maximize windows via shortcut

The shortcut “super + up” is not maximazing a window, its tilting it to the top. “super + down” is tilting to the bottom like the tilting for left and right works.

But the shortcuts “super + up” and “super + down” are defined as maximize and unmaximize in the shortcuts settings, like it is default.

Has anybody an idea, how to fix this behaviour?

I am using X11 and here is some further sys info:

[user@lapdancetop Downloads]$ pacman -Qi plasma-desktop
Name            : plasma-desktop
Version         : 6.1.5-1
Description     : KDE Plasma Desktop
Architecture    : x86_64
[...]

[user@lapdancetop Downloads]$ uname -a
Linux lapdancetop 6.11.1-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:49:50 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

what command is it using? and if you type the command out what does the terminal output show?

I don’t know. I configured it via io.elementary.shortcut-overlay. There is no further description of the maximize command available.

Interesting:
Accroding to kglobalshortcutsrc everything is working like intended.

[user@lapdancetop .config]$ grep -E 'Meta\+Up|Meta\+PgUp' kglobalshortcutsrc 
Window Maximize=Meta+PgUp,Meta+PgUp,Maximize Window
Window Quick Tile Top=Meta+Up,Meta+Up,Quick Tile Window to the Top

Meta+PgUp works to maximize.

The question remains, what whychanges via io.elementary.shortcut-overlay seem to get lost.

I am not familiar with this however this is the type of information you should consider adding to your original questions when you post so people can help you more easily. The more information you can give us the more we can help.

I‘ll run some more tests to check if any files are modified by the graphical settings dialog (io.elementary.shortcut-overlay) at all.

Depending on the results, I‘ll open a new thread.

This one is solved, as the shortkey assignment of kglobalshortcutsrc works.

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It’s an Elementary OS/Pantheon DE tool. Not sure why the OP is trying to use it on Plasma when Plasma has everything built-in. Maybe it’s what is causing issues.

@ubuntu_oldie Do you have both Pantheon DE and KDE Plasma installed?

You can check with:

pacman -Q | grep -A 0 -E "(pantheon|plasma-desktop)"

Please show the output here.

If you only have pantheon-shortcut-overlay installed, but you are using KDE Plasma, you are likely to have more issues related to shortcuts as having two shortcut managers usually conflict with each other.

Scratch that. I see now that it isn’t a shortcut manager, just a way to view system shortcuts.

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