Plasma Keyboard prevents direct typing in Google Sheets cells

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Hi everyone,

I have been testing the latest version of KDE Plasma and noticed the new Plasma Keyboard feature, especially the diacritics popup when holding a key. It is a nice addition and works as expected in general typing scenarios.

However, I encountered an issue when using it with Google Sheets in a browser. When the virtual keyboard (Plasma Keyboard) is enabled, I am unable to type directly into a cell. The cell gets focus, but no input is registered from the keyboard. Once I disable the virtual keyboard, typing in Google Sheets works normally again.

This behavior seems specific to the interaction between Plasma Keyboard and web-based spreadsheet editors like Google Sheets.

Has anyone experienced the same issue? Is this a known limitation, or is there a workaround or configuration that can resolve it?

Environment details:

  • OS: Fedora Linux 44
  • Graphics Platform: Wayland
  • KDE Plasma version: 6.7.0
  • Browser: Google Chrome & Edge
  • Input method: Plasma Keyboard (virtual keyboard)

Thanks in advance for any insights.

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Weird! Can you upgrade to Plasma 6.7.1 and try again?

If that doesn’t fix it, please open a bug report on https://bugs.kde.org. Thanks!

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Also, see if Firefox has the same issue… both tested browsers are chromium based, it is likely that Google did some weird low level input things there

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I’ll update this post again when Plasma 6.7.1 is available in my Fedora repo.

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Nice, it works in Firefox. But I mostly use Chromium-based browsers as my daily browser.

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The issue still persists after updating to Plasma 6.7.1 in Chromium-based browsers.

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Pretty sure it’s fixed with 6.7.2 now!