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How to install virtual keyboard for KDE

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Yvan Masson

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Mar 19, 2023, 2:20:06 PM3/19/23
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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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Yvan Masson

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Mar 20, 2023, 3:53:17 PM3/20/23
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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".

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> Regards,
> Yvan
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Timothy M Butterworth

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Mar 20, 2023, 8:10:06 PM3/20/23
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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

 
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> Regards,
> Yvan


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Jeffrey Walton

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Mar 20, 2023, 8:30:06 PM3/20/23
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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

Yvan Masson

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Mar 21, 2023, 2:20:05 AM3/21/23
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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 <yv...@masson-informatique.fr
> <mailto:yv...@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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Yvan Masson

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Mar 28, 2023, 3:00:06 PM3/28/23
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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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