KDE Plasma virtual keyboard missing

[perm515]

Hello,

I’ve recently installed Tumbleweed on my Lenovo Yoga 7 2-in-1 (14AKP10). I’ve noticed there is no KDE virtual keyboard in the tablet mode. I know that there is a new KDE keyboard in Plasma 6.6, which I got with a recent OpenSUSE update, but I can’t make it work.

At first there was nothing visible in Setting>Keyboard>Screen keyboard.

Following one of the instructions, I’ve added plasma-keyboard-nightly repo and installed Plasma Keyboard. That made a Plasma Keyboard entry appear in the above settings and I have it selected. Nevertheless, it still doesn’t show up.

In my .config/kwinrc file I have such an entry.

[Wayland]
InputMethod[$e]=/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications/org.kde.plasma.keyboard.desktop
VirtualKeyboardEnabled=true

I use Wayland, because in X11 the touchscreen worked only partially.

Can someone advise me how to activate that? Is there a chance it becomes a standard feature, so that owners of 2-in-1s won’t need to tinker?

[sfalken]

I’m not sure how this could possibly work from a flatpak.

From what I can tell, you need to add the following, after installing plasma6-keyboardvia zypper

whatever configuration file you’re using for sddm (in my case, it is /etc/sddm.conf.d/10-Kalpa.conf)

You’ll want it to be:

[Wayland]
CompositorCommand=kwin_wayland --no-lockscreen --no-global-shortcuts --inputmethod plasma-keyboard --locale1

and then in either /etc/xdg/kwinrc or $HOME/.config/kwinrc set:

[Wayland]
InputMethod[$e]=/usr/share/applications/org.kde.plasma.keyboard.desktop            
VirtualKeyboardEnabled=true

That should get plasma keyboard working for you and it looks like I missed coordinating those steps when packaging it.

[perm515]

Hi @sfalken! That helped. Thank you very much!

Would be great to have that plasma6-keyboard installed and configured by default.