3 wk. ago • 92%

Why does Maliit work on desktop?

Hi all, I have a desktop and laptop with a touchscreen. Both running Plasma/Wayland. English is my second language and I search things in my language often. Maliit works just fine on the laptop, but it's basically a dud on the desktop. I can only enable and disable it. It never shows nor work at all on the desktop. Tried onboard, gnomes on screen keyboard, and that thing is useless, too. Anyway to make Maliit work or is there an alternative? I really need it for the desktop. Thanks.

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It could be that your distro ships Plasma 6, but the keyboard is still qt5 based, so they don't talk well to eachother?

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- I am on endeavour OS and yes, I'm on plasma 6, but where do I get Maliit qt6 from? I downloaded this one from the arch repos, so not sure where else to go.
  
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  There is no maliit for qt6 yet. It's still a work in progress according to the github repo issues.
  
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  Check if it really uses Qt5, I dont think so
  
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The virtual keyboard is hidden by default, unless you're using touch. You can change that by setting the KWIN_IM_SHOW_ALWAYS=1 environment variable, until there's a proper setting for it

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- Does this variable make it shown at all times?
  
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  No, only when you click on an input field and have it enabled in the system tray
  
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- Also, this thing does only English no matter what I tried.
  
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Maliit only appears when touch events are registered. So you cannot use it with a mouse. And development on the app is slow to nonexistent.

The virtual keyboard situation on Linux is abysmal. Especially on KDE.

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- Damn. Good to know then
  
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