Hi all, I have a desktop and laptop with a touchscreen. Both running Plasma/Wayland. English is my second language and I search things in my language often. Maliit works just fine on the laptop, but it’s basically a dud on the desktop. I can only enable and disable it. It never shows nor work at all on the desktop. Tried onboard, gnomes on screen keyboard, and that thing is useless, too. Anyway to make Maliit work or is there an alternative? I really need it for the desktop. Thanks.

  • Strit
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    63 months ago

    It could be that your distro ships Plasma 6, but the keyboard is still qt5 based, so they don’t talk well to eachother?

    • @penquin@lemm.eeOP
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      23 months ago

      I am on endeavour OS and yes, I’m on plasma 6, but where do I get Maliit qt6 from? I downloaded this one from the arch repos, so not sure where else to go.

  • @Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.de
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    53 months ago

    The virtual keyboard is hidden by default, unless you’re using touch. You can change that by setting the KWIN_IM_SHOW_ALWAYS=1 environment variable, until there’s a proper setting for it

  • Björn Tantau
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    43 months ago

    Maliit only appears when touch events are registered. So you cannot use it with a mouse. And development on the app is slow to nonexistent.

    The virtual keyboard situation on Linux is abysmal. Especially on KDE.