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Finally the Onboard on screen keyboard works on Wayland (bugs.launchpad.net)

submitted 10 months ago by bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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cross-posted from: https://swg-empire.de/post/842090

Finally the Onboard on screen keyboard works on Wayland

This is too great not to share. Wayland devs hate this trick! I'll copy what I did from the bug report.

As a workaround you can use https://github.com/Supreeeme/extest to make Onboard work. Compile it as a 64 bit library and launch onboard with

env LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libextest.so onboard

If you want to use it with KDE you can add

X-KDE-Wayland-VirtualKeyboard=true

to its desktop-file.

I used kwin rules to get rid of window decorations and have it always on top without stealing focus. If someone knows how to make all other windows smaller when it's active that would be great.

Only problem remaining is that sometimes the keys get stuck on touch input. At least on my Steam Deck on OpenSUSE.

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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do you just install it, and it supercedes the Steam one?

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, not at all. Steam's keyboard doesn't work on Plasma-Wayland at all. And you have to make some manual adjustments to get Onboard to work.

And I just found out that it doesn't work on the lock screen so I will have to find another workaround for that.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Steam’s keyboard doesn’t work on Plasma-Wayland at all.

Steam Deck doesn't use Plasma Wayland, so what is your post doing here? Once Valve ship a SteamOS version with Plasma 6 on Wayland, they'll have a working solution.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm not running SteamOS.

I think they are waiting for Chromium to fully support Wayland before they ship Steam for Wayland.

But by now I've also found a workaround to get the Steam keyboard working on Wayland.

https://sopuli.xyz/post/11828655

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I’m not running SteamOS.

And I was asking why you were posting that in the Steam Deck community. It's off topic.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What do you care about a year old post?

I'm doing all of this on a Steam Deck.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

What do you care about a year old post?

It showed up at the top for whatever reason.