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How to install virtual keyboard for KDE

Started byYvan Masson <yvan@masson-informatique.fr>
First post2023-03-19 19:20 +0100
Last post2023-03-21 01:30 +0100
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  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

#256194 — How to install virtual keyboard for KDE

FromYvan Masson <yvan@masson-informatique.fr>
Date2023-03-19 19:20 +0100
SubjectHow to install virtual keyboard for KDE
Message-ID<Gb5Nn-dCpv-1@gated-at.bofh.it>

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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.

Regards,
Yvan

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#256234

FromYvan Masson <yvan@masson-informatique.fr>
Date2023-03-20 20:50 +0100
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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".

> 
> Regards,
> Yvan

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#256239

FromTimothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com>
Date2023-03-21 01:10 +0100
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On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 3:42 PM Yvan Masson <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



> >
> > Regards,
> > Yvan
>


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#256248

FromYvan Masson <yvan@masson-informatique.fr>
Date2023-03-21 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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#256487

FromYvan Masson <yvan@masson-informatique.fr>
Date2023-03-28 21:00 +0200
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For those interested in KDE's own virtual keyboard status, Nate Graham 
gave an explanation here:

https://discuss.kde.org/t/how-to-enable-virtual-keyboard-included-in-kde/264/2

Regards,
Yvan

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#256240

FromJeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>
Date2023-03-21 01:30 +0100
Message-ID<Gby2Z-dUlR-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#256194
On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 2:10 PM Yvan Masson <yvan@masson-informatique.fr> wrote:
>
> 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.

In the past [1], I accidentally broke the KDE login manager after a
do-system-upgrade. When trying to fix it, I accidentally installed a
virtual keyboard.

I got the virtual keyboard from gtk3-engines-breeze .

[1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-users/2022-December/063397.html

Jeff

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