Keyboard navigation of editors tabs disabled
On my new install of Fedora 42 using KDE Plasma, I can no longer control the editor tabs using the keyboard. These options are greyed out in the Windows/Editor tabs menu: Select next tab, Select previous tab, Keep tab open, and more. Keyboard shortcuts have no effect. I've deselected the “Support screen readers” option. In other applications, like Brave, tab navigation using the keyboard works.
Please advice!
System details:
IntelliJ IDEA 2025.1.3 (Community Edition)
Build #IC-251.26927.53, built on June 23, 2025
Source revision: a5abecbe752fe
Runtime version: 21.0.7+9-b895.130 amd64 (JCEF 122.1.9)
VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o.
Toolkit: sun.awt.X11.XToolkit
Linux 6.15.5-200.fc42.x86_64
Fedora Linux 42 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition); glibc: 2.41
Kotlin plugin: K2 mode
GC: G1 Young Generation, G1 Concurrent GC, G1 Old Generation
Memory: 2048M
Cores: 20
Registry:
ide.experimental.ui=true
Non-Bundled Plugins:
com.poratu.idea.plugins.tomcat (4.7.5)
net.ashald.envfile (3.4.2)
org.jetbrains.plugins.github (251.26927.54-IU)
org.jetbrains.plugins.gitlab (251.26927.54-IU)
com.github.copilot (1.5.48-243)
Kotlin: 251.26927.53-IJ
Current Desktop: KDE
Operating System: Fedora Linux 42
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.15.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.15.5-200.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 20 × 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-13900H
Memory: 48 GiB of RAM (46.7 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics
Graphics Processor 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU
Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Product Name: Zenbook UX6404VI_UX6404VI
System Version: 1.0
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Hi, sorry for the long silence.
The actions are indeed greyed out in the main menu, but for me they still work if I use the left Alt + Left/Right - and do not work with right Alt. Could you please confirm you observe the same?
What is your keyboard layout (input method) in the OS and what keymap do you have selected in IDE Settings | Keymap?
I have a copy of the KDE keymap. Now I see that I've created shortcuts for the wrong “Select Next/Prev Tab” options. There are shortcuts for the “multi-editor file”, and also another set of shortcuts for the same thing under Windows/Editor tabs. I had created shortcuts for the multi-editor file (which I don't even know what it is). So now it works. Thanks for reaching out.