Any virtual keyboard / on-screen keyboard recommendations for Gnome (Wayland) users? The default one doesn’t support X11/XWayland apps, which unfortunately is most of them…

  • astro_ray@lemdro.idEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Not just X11 apps, it doesn’t work properly even in webapps.

    Well, there’s not really many good alternative, but used to use Onboard which has some good features. You can give that a try.

    • gwendolencopper@kbin.socialOP
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      7 months ago

      @astro_ray

      If you’re talking about running web-apps in the browser, I found that using environment variable MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 solves some of my virtual keyboard issues in Firefox (update I just tried disabling the variable and it works the same…maybe it was just placebo…). For example, if you wanted to run the Librewolf flatpak you can do flatpak run --env=MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 io.gitlab.librewolf-community or to set the variable permanently you can do flatpak override --user --env=MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 io.gitlab.librewolf-community and then Librewolf will always launch with that option.

      As for Chromium forks, they don’t use Wayland yet so that just goes back to the X11 / XWayland issues. Same goes for Electron apps. At least from what I understand from https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/6238. Maybe there’s a way to force Chromium/Electron to use Wayland, I haven’t tried it yet

      And I’ll try Onboard, thanks for the tip

      Update: I tried onboard, and it also didn’t work for X11 apps :(

    • Pantherina@feddit.de
      1·
      7 months ago

      Yes poorly. The input method protocol was done by Purism (which says something as that company seems dead or whatever) and then basically untouched.

  • Excigma@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Strange. The default keyboard works wonders for me but doesn’t automatically pop up. Are you able to swipe from the bottom edge of the display to make it pop up?

    • gwendolencopper@kbin.socialOP
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      7 months ago

      @Excigma I can swipe up to force the keyboard to appear, but pressing the keys does nothing in X11 apps (which use XWayland under Wayland), like Chromium browsers or KeepassXC