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cross-posted from: https://swg-empire.de/post/842090

Finally the Onboard on screen keyboard works on Wayland

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 onboard

If you want to use it with KDE you can add

X-KDE-Wayland-VirtualKeyboard=true

to 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.

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[โ€“] Telorand@reddthat.com 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Do you just install it, and it supercedes the Steam one?

[โ€“] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 points 7 months ago

No, not at all. Steam's keyboard doesn't work on Plasma-Wayland at all. And you have to make some manual adjustments to get Onboard to work.

And I just found out that it doesn't work on the lock screen so I will have to find another workaround for that.