I’m using plasma bigscreen. I’m using a bigscreen plasma TV, and I can’t find the virtual keyboard anywhere (even though I’ve enabled the on-screen keyboard) when I try to type something. Can anyone help me? I’ve tried everything. Thank you!
Device: Compaq Presario CQ40
Hello, it seems like the virtual keyboard isn’t enabled for some reason on your system, it does seem like plasma-keyboard is installed however (since the settings module is there).
In ~/.config/plasma-bigscreen/kwinrc, the shell usually sets something like:
[Wayland]
InputMethod=/usr/share/applications/org.kde.plasma.keyboard.desktop
However, this can be overriden if you have a user-defined setting in ~/.config/kwinrc. Is this set anywhere there?
Also: are you launching this from Plasma Desktop, or logging directly into the session?
Yes, ~/.config/kwinrc does have a user-defined override:
[wayland]
inputmethod=org.kde.kwin.maliitlockscreen
virtualkeyboardenabled=true
This differs from the default ~/.config/plasma-bigscreen/kwinrc value.
As for launching: I’m not going through Plasma Desktop at all — SDDM is set to auto-login directly into the Plasma Bigscreen session.
I’m having this same issue. I am in no way fully knowledgeable on KDE’s codebase or inner workings, but it seems like it inherits the same virtual-keyboard settings from Desktop, (With touch, with touch and tablet, or with touch, tablet, and mouse).
The virtual keyboard does not seem to be programmed to show up during a keyboard press (how a lot of remotes are interpreted) or from joypad events, or at least not seeming to be configurable through the UI.