Jason Straight

Fixed in KDE/Plasma 6.0 When the keepass window minimizes prior to autotype, kwin now activates the previously active window and typing is performed as expected.

I believe this is due to a bug in KDE Plasma not activating the previously active window when non QT windows are minimized, and I have submitted a bug report. There was a similar bug report for wayland applications on KDE, so it may already be fixed when Plasma 6 releases?

Autotype start delay required for Wayland/KDE

I don't know what the c++ equivalent of getent would be, but doing "getent hosts [hostname]" should follow any resolution configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf, which is probably what's wanted? I'd have to try it at home, where I have no local DNS set up to be sure it resolves mdns, but it should.

No problem. Wish I could do more to help. I also noticed this morning, while at work, where I have set up local DNS for the domain williams.lan, that using dolphin to access a share resolved to hostname.williams.lan. So it appears that dolphin uses a domain search of sorts during name resolution where it must try DNS first, then fall to mdns if that fails.

Just to be thorough, I removed mdns entries from nsswitch.conf and tried dolphin. Dolphin assumes mdns will work and simply uses the ".local" domain. Without mdns entries in nsswitch.conf dolphin fails to reach the SMB host. So that's all they're doing. Just pasting ".local" to the hostname and letting mdns take care of resolution.

I feel like using hostname.local is probably the safest route. When the remote host returns addresses, they don't seem to be in any controllable order. So it's possible that just taking the first one could return an address that's on another network subnet entirely. When I did lookups on my windows host, they returned in an order that I would have preferred, every time. The top one was ethernet, 2nd was wifi, and 3rd was vbox virtual device. I thought maybe order in the reply was determined by interface...

Yes, dolphin works. It lists the host with just the hostname, but when I access the share the path includes the ".local" mdns domain name. It used to be that libnss-mdns could be told to search the localdomain, or search domain that you would put in /etc/resolv.conf, but that was removed (unless compiled with special options), because (according to the manpage) it "broke things". Even if that worked, it probably wouldn't be the ideal way, since almost nobody is going to have their /etc/nsswitch.conf...