How to get functionalities on par with onboard in an on-screen-keyboard in Wayland?

The onboard on-screen-keyboard offers a lot of buttons.

Unfortunately, it does not work on Wayland, and X11 is going to be deprecated (and also, Wayland offers a lot of nice features on touchscreen devices, which X11 does not).

The on-screen-keyboards in wayland (such as maliit) does not have too many buttons

It does not come with tab or control buttons, which are often necessary to operate in a terminal.

How to either

  1. Run Onboard in Wayland?
  2. Add the additional keys (ctrl, tab and so on) to the existing Wayland keyboards such as maliit?

It would be nice to have a better on-screen-keyboard for Wayland that can completely replace a physical keyboard.

I think you want to look at this recent thread: Plasma Virtual Keyboard feedback needed

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