Am 17. März 2018 02:01:24 MEZ schrieb Heather Ellsworth <heather.ellswo...@puri.sm>: >On 03/15/2018 09:10 PM, Bhushan Shah wrote: >> Hello Heather, >> >> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 06:57:27PM -0600, Heather Ellsworth wrote: >>> I've been running Plasma Mobile on my iMX6 dev board (precursor to >the >>> dev kit for the Librem 5) and I've notices there's no onscreen >keyboard. >>> Is it there and I'm just not initializing it? Or what is the story >with >>> the OSK in Plasma Mobile? >> >> For OSK, you just need to install qtvirtualkeyboard-plugin package, >it >> should give you working on-screen-keyboard for the Qt applications. >It >> is however possible that QtVirtualKeyboard is disabled by default if >you >> have keyboard attached. In that case you can enable it by clicking on >> virtualkeyboard icon in top drawer. >> >> You can also "export QT_VIRTUALKEYBOARD_STYLE=Plasma" for better >theming >> integration with Plasma Mobile. > >After installing qtvirtualkeyboard-plugin and exporting >QT_VIRTUALKEYBOARD_STYLE, we still do not see a keyboard icon in the >top >left of the Plasma Mobile desktop. > >Similarly, we do not see the icon after manually enabling the keyboard >with: > >$ qdbus org.kde.KWin /VirtualKeyboard >org.kde.kwin.VirtualKeyboard.enable > >However, after enabling the keyboard with the above qdbus command, we >see the keyboard pop up when a text field is clicked (like the search >bar, kwrite, konsole) but then the keyboard immediately goes away. > >Also in the lock screen, I see the virtual keyboard icon in the bottom >left. When I click it, the virtual keyboard appears and does not >disappear. Then I can type in the password (using Ctrl+Super to guide >my >mouse) to log back in. > >So the virtual keyboard works, but when in the desktop session the >keyboard goes away right after it appears. Any troubleshooting advice >you have would be helpful. >
It might sound stupid, but just unplug the physical keyboard. Then it should work best. If the keyboard still hides, run the apps with WAYLAND_DEBUG=1 then we can see what's going on and why it hides. It should only hide if the application requests it and that's something we can see in the debug output.
