Re: How to install virtual keyboard for KDE

From	Yvan Masson <yvan@masson-informatique.fr>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: How to install virtual keyboard for KDE
Date	2023-03-21 07:20 +0100
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Le 21/03/2023 à 01:06, Timothy M Butterworth a écrit :
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 3:42 PM Yvan Masson <yvan@masson-informatique.fr 
> <mailto:yvan@masson-informatique.fr>> wrote:
> 
>     Le 19/03/2023 à 19:10, Yvan Masson a écrit :
>      > Hi,
>      >
>      > Using Debian testing with KDE, can someone tell me which package
>      > provides a virtual keyboard for KDE ? I installed
>      > qtvirtualkeyboard-plugin but it does not appear in KDE preferences
>      > (although it works on SDDM).
>      >
>      > I already tried Onboard, but it has blocking issues for me.
>     I have still not found an answer, but there is something interesting
>     when I go to KDE preferences:
>     - If running with Wayland, there is a "Input Devices -> Virtual
>     Keyboard" section, but "None" is the only choice.
>     - If running with X11, there is no "Virtual Keyboard" section inside
>     "Input Devices".
> 
> 
> Have you tried squeekboard/testing 1.21.0-1 amd64
>   On-screen keyboard for Wayland
> 
> or
> xvkbd/testing 4.1-2 amd64
>   software virtual keyboard for X11
> 
Thanks for the hint!

- squeekboard refuses to start
- xvkbd looks really old and is untranslated, but it seems to do the job
- I also installed maliit-keyboard (got the clue from 
plasma-mobile-tweaks package), and while I can choose it in KDE's 
settings (which again only appears when running on Wayland), it never 
appears on screen nor in QT nor in GTK applications.

>      >
>      > Regards,
>      > Yvan
> 
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Thread

How to install virtual keyboard for KDE Yvan Masson <yvan@masson-informatique.fr> - 2023-03-19 19:20 +0100
  Re: How to install virtual keyboard for KDE Yvan Masson <yvan@masson-informatique.fr> - 2023-03-20 20:50 +0100
    Re: How to install virtual keyboard for KDE Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> - 2023-03-21 01:10 +0100
      Re: How to install virtual keyboard for KDE Yvan Masson <yvan@masson-informatique.fr> - 2023-03-21 07:20 +0100
        Re: How to install virtual keyboard for KDE Yvan Masson <yvan@masson-informatique.fr> - 2023-03-28 21:00 +0200
  Re: How to install virtual keyboard for KDE Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2023-03-21 01:30 +0100

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