Re: How to install virtual keyboard for KDE

[Yvan Masson]

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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Re: How to install virtual keyboard for KDE

[Yvan Masson]

Le 21/03/2023 à 01:06, Timothy M Butterworth a écrit :



On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 3:42 PM Yvan Masson > 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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Re: How to install virtual keyboard for KDE

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 2:10 PM Yvan Masson  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

Re: How to install virtual keyboard for KDE

[Timothy M Butterworth]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 3:42 PM Yvan Masson 
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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Re: How to install virtual keyboard for KDE

[Yvan Masson]

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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How to install virtual keyboard for KDE

[Yvan Masson]

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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