Plasma 6.6.0 New Features Coming In!

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No, i’m using a notebook. All i need is a virtual keyboard to open as any other app and use on the browser or the editor.

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There used to be some problems with plasma keyboard IIRC.

I looked it up. [1] which mentions (march 2023): “I installed package qtvirtualkeyboard-plugin and it works with SDDM, but not within KDE.” At the time Nate Graham responded “This is non-ideal right now so I’ll try to help.” and links to a merge request, which seems not to have been implemented as far as I understand what I am reading.

So perhaps it’s just not working at the moment?

[1] https://discuss.kde.org/t/how-to-enable-virtual-keyboard-included-in-kde/264

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Thanks for sharing this. Now i’m just curious of the new plasma 6.6 and possible future fix. Still, feels good to have a nice desktop experience with incredible low cpu usage.

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but this thread is about maliit-keyboard basically ?

We added plasma-keyboard to replace maliit-keyboard as of m aliit was still qt5, and removed from repos.

KWin by default only shows the keyboard when a text field is interacted with by touch. Set KWIN_IM_SHOW_ALWAYS=1 when starting KWin (or the login session) in order to force the keyboard to always pop up.

easiest in your: kate /etc/environment
adding this line:

KWIN_IM_SHOW_ALWAYS=1

plasma-keyboard is also only working on wayland sessions.

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Plasma 6.6 beta 2 has been released

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Will be interesting to see what capabilities Plasma login manager has. Beyond that, the animations not being locked to 60Hz will be a real change on the smoothness front for anyone running at a higher refresh rate. It’s especially noticeable in scaling and overviews.