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)

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    4·
    17 days 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

  • Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1·
    17 days ago

    Mallit works fine with non KDE apps. X11 apps are sort of problematic, but you can explicitly show the keyboard and use it that way.

    What apps did you have problems with?

    • Hemingways_ShotgunOPEnglish
      2·
      16 days ago

      What apps did you have problems with?

      Anything that isn’t a native KDE app. Chromium, Firefox, OnlyOffice, Libre office, Gimp, Inkscape, etc…

      Literally only KDEs own apps actually bring up the keyboard.