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On-screen keyboard (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Haven't looked too deeply into this before now because it's not a high high priority; more like a "would be nice." But has anyone found a touchscreen keyboard (like Maliit) that works on Wayland with non-kde apps. Maliit works with the kapps, but not anything else.

Switching to X11 to use a keyboard that does sort of work, and I lose the auto-rotation...

So it seems that we can't have both worlds unless someone knows more than I do (which I admit isn't hard to do)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nah, touchscreen keyboards on Linux and especially KDE are severely lacking. I think there are efforts underway to make a new keyboard for kde because Maliit has been abandoned. But I have no idea how far they are.

I managed to get ~~Onscreen~~ Onboard and Steam's keyboard to work on Wayland. But they are both not ideal either. Onboard especially seems to be prone to crash when used via touch on Wayland. Let me find the posts I made on the subject...

Edit: Here's Onboard: https://swg-empire.de/post/842090

Edit 2: And Steam: https://swg-empire.de/post/853437