Virtual Keyboard - Fedora 41

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Heya all. I got a friend who just switched to Fedora KDE from Windows 11.

But i got a question yesterday which i could not find a solution to.

He is used to bring up the virtual keyboard once in a while and use the mouse to select the keys. But i simply can’t get/find a way to enable it and been searching for a solution but non have worked so far.

The Maliit keyboard is installed and selected as default.

Is the a widget or something one can press to force the virtual keyboard to show? or an alternative

His system is brand new and is running fedora 41 kde with wayland.

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Nope!

(:

And they show little to no interest in doing anything about that.

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Darn and given i haven’t had any luck with the very few 3-party ones, then i guess its back to the drawing board

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If you want maliit to show when using a mouse you need to enable KWIN_IM_SHOW_ALWAYS=1 in your enviroment variable.

See: KDE - ArchWiki

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Attempted it again. But i think ive mixed stuff up. The first attept did printenv say it was set to 1 but didn’t work.

This time i went directly into /etc/environment and it was empty and i set in the KWIN_IM_SHOW_ALWAYS=1 and it seemed to work on the VM. Will attempt it on his PC

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Got it working on his. He had an extra step due to using brave browser and had to force it to use wayland “Preferred Ozone platform” and enable “Wayland text-input-v3”