On 03/17/2018 02:41 PM, Martin Flöser wrote: > > > 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. >
Thank you for the suggestion. It turns out that the issue was actually setting the QT_IM_MODULE: $ export QT_IM_MODULE=qtvirtualkeyboard With this variable set, I see the keyboard come up and then disappear when a text field is clicked. I was testing with this variable on Friday. However with this variable unset, the keyboard seems to _stay around_ and be usable when a text field is clicked. So the trick is to not set this :) Cheers, Heather
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