Is Japanese Input + OSK impossible?

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Some months ago I posted on Fedora’s forum asking for help in how to get Fedora KDE with Japanese input working together with the on-screen keyboard. The reason for this is that I’m running a Lenovo Yoga 7 folding laptop, which, when in tablet mode, needs the OSK to be able to input text normally, (ie. using a “normal” keyboard layout). Setting the virtual keyboard to fcitx5 seems to be the general approach to handle japanese input, as that translates the keyboard inputs to japanese on the fly, but unfortunately this kills the OSK.

I don’t really understand why these features are incompatible as they appear to be unrelated. I did wait until Fedora 43 to see if the issue was fixed and/or if someone would provide an answer to my original post, but I still have no answer :frowning:

A user on the Fedora forum suggested I ask here :slight_smile: So, is there something I’m missing here? Is there a way to enable the OSK in tablet mode while having japanese input work when in normal mode?

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hi, welcome.

you could try this

or install the maliit-keyboard package and see if that gives you more options in the settings.

but my limited experience with OSK was that it did not follow the keyboard layout settings and was it’s own thing.