Maliit-keyboard constantly crashes on KDE 6.5.4

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I’m hoping kde bugfix set 6.5.5 due on Jan 13 will fix this but if not, is there some way to prevent maliit-keyboard from starting? I have tried setting the virtual keyboard to “None” in “System Settings→ Keyboard→ Virtual keyboard”. But I keep getting SIGSEGV dumps in coredumpctl list:

Fri 2026-01-09 16:37:52 EST 2014 1000 1000 SIGSEGV none /usr/bin/maliit-keyboard -
Fri 2026-01-09 17:41:00 EST 1986 1000 1000 SIGSEGV none /usr/bin/maliit-keyboard -
Fri 2026-01-09 18:19:28 EST 4920 1000 1000 SIGSEGV none /usr/bin/maliit-keyboard -
Fri 2026-01-09 18:19:29 EST 6982 1000 1000 SIGSEGV none /usr/bin/maliit-keyboard -
Fri 2026-01-09 18:19:30 EST 7060 1000 1000 SIGSEGV none /usr/bin/maliit-keyboard -
Fri 2026-01-09 18:45:48 EST 7109 1000 1000 SIGSEGV none /usr/bin/maliit-keyboard -
Fri 2026-01-09 18:45:52 EST 8315 1000 1000 SIGSEGV none /usr/bin/maliit-keyboard -
Sat 2026-01-10 14:58:09 EST 2003 1000 1000 SIGSEGV none /usr/bin/maliit-keyboard -
Sat 2026-01-10 14:58:30 EST 4216 1000 1000 SIGSEGV none /usr/bin/maliit-keyboard -
Sat 2026-01-10 15:03:41 EST 4680 1000 1000 SIGSEGV none /usr/bin/maliit-keyboard -

So the Virtual Keyboard setting of None is ignored, removing the ‘maliit-keyboard” package is not allowed as it’s a dependency for sddm and I want to keep SDDM going.

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What distro are you on? On Arch, maliit is *not* a dependency of sddm.

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What distro are you on? On Arch, maliit is *not* a dependency of sddm.

Fedora 43, trying to remove it results in :

sudo dnf remove maliit-keyboard

Failed to resolve the transaction:
Problem: installed package plasma-workspace-6.5.4-1.fc43.x86_64 requires (plasma-keyboard(x86-64) or maliit-keyboard(x86-64)), but none of the provid
ers can be installed
- installed package plasma-desktop-6.5.4-2.fc43.x86_64 requires plasma-workspace, but none of the providers can be installed
- conflicting requests
- problem with installed package

repoquery shows the deps as:

dnf rq --whatrequires=maliit-keyboard

initial-setup-gui-wayland-plasma-0:43.1-1.fc43.noarch
plasma-workspace-0:6.4.5-4.fc43.x86_64
plasma-workspace-0:6.5.4-1.fc43.x86_64
sddm-wayland-plasma-0:6.4.5-4.fc43.noarch
sddm-wayland-plasma-0:6.5.4-1.fc43.noarch

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I found a solution, or a workaround. I found a way to create a bogus rpm that simply defines a dependency.

Basically I cloned this:

GitHub - larsks/fakeprovide: A tool for generating "fake" rpm packages to resolve otherwise intractable dependency issues.
and built the fake rpm with that.

So I removed the crashy maliit-keyboard rpm and replaced it with the fake rpm that says it provides “maliit-keyboard” (it doesn’t really but makes dnf/rpm happy). Surprisingly whatever was constantly starting the maliit-keyboard doesn’t seem to mind the /usr/bin/maliit-keyboard exe is now gone.

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For Fedora 43 you are welcome to try my COPR, just search google for: copr cwt maliit-keyboard-robust

You should find the link to it with these keywords.

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seeing this same issue in kde neon plasma 6.6.0 as well. disabling virtual keyboard in system settings stopped it for me. others can try and inform if it works for them as well.

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It’s not an issue anymore, KDE 6.6.0 doesn’t require maliit-keyboard package any more so I simply removed it with dnf