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Why does Maliit work on desktop? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by penquin@lemm.ee to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

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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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[–] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There is no maliit for qt6 yet. It's still a work in progress according to the github repo issues.

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Zamunda's environment variable helped make it work, but it only ever does English.

[–] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 1 points 2 months ago

Awesome. So different library versions does not conflict here, good to know. :)

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Check if it really uses Qt5, I dont think so

[–] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Arch packages does and he is using an Arch based distro (endeavorOS), so it would be the same.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

Interesting, ok

[–] Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Does this variable make it shown at all times?

[–] Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

No, only when you click on an input field and have it enabled in the system tray

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Also, this thing does only English no matter what I tried.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Damn. Good to know then