This is too great not to share. Wayland devs hate this trick! I’ll copy what I did from the bug report.
As a workaround you can use https://github.com/Supreeeme/extest to make Onboard work. Compile it as a 64 bit library and launch onboard with
env LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libextest.so onboardIf you want to use it with KDE you can add
X-KDE-Wayland-VirtualKeyboard=trueto its desktop-file.
I used kwin rules to get rid of window decorations and have it always on top without stealing focus. If someone knows how to make all other windows smaller when it’s active that would be great.
Only problem remaining is that sometimes the keys get stuck on touch input. At least on my Steam Deck on OpenSUSE.
Not on Plasma Desktop. Maybe on Mobile. But I was not able to find out how to get it to Desktop.
I am talking about the desktop. Mobile doesn’t have a system tray.
What distribution? No such thing for me with Plasma 6 on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
Fedora. Though I just tested it again and the input method icon is now hidden by default, and does not automatically show up when appropriate :|
You can make it always be shown in the system tray configuration, but this should really work out of the box…