So my workflow is typically hit start -> cmd -> enter which I can usually do these 3 actions in less than 2 seconds on Windows. I’ve tried a dozen different distros on Wayland, X11, with and without the Nvidia proprietary drivers. KDE search seems to be too slow for me to do this though. Cinnamon, Gnome, Mate, and XFCE don’t seem to have this problem. Is there a way to speed up the KDE start search or to at least somehow buffer the enter input so I am not stuck pressing enter again?
Weird. It’s always been fast for me.
Is something throttling your CPU ? Have you tried using ALT+F2 to search ? But even if you had not it should be quick to search…
Nothing is throttling my CPU unless it’s somehow defaulted on in OpenSuse, Manjaro, Debian, or Linux Mint. Also these same distros, I installed other DEs on and had it work just fine. It’s a AMD Ryzen 9 3900x 4 ghz 12 cores.
This is specifically a KDE problem. So question, if you do windows key -> term/kon -> enter. As quickly as you can, does it accept the enter input and immediately launch your terminal?
I may not be as fast as you, but yeah it does work. Then again, I’m not using the default launcher.
I only notice it slightly slower on my intel i5 3rd gen machine. Which is exlected.
Oh what launcher are you using?
It’s called
minimal menu