Vboard as Virtual Keyboard app for wayland

Desktop Environments Plasma
1

I found this keyboard which work with wayland (desktop) vboard : https://github.com/mdev588/vboard

if i type sudo python3 vboard.py the app launch, but if i click on the shortcut make following the guide it won’t start

shortcut code

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications/
cat > ~/.local/share/applications/vboard.desktop <<EOF
[Desktop Entry]
Exec=bash -c 'python3 ~/vboard.py'
Icon=preferences-desktop-keyboard
Name=Vboard
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Utility
NoDisplay=false
EOF

any way to run it?

2

You definitely shouldn’t run it with sudo. After doing that, you should go through your home directory and your dot files to ensure nothing it owned by root.

3

The os is a new install and i’ve mostly added pacman and yay packages. If i don’t run it with sudo i get this error.

File "/home/ezeno/vboard.py", line 428, in <module>
win = VirtualKeyboard()
File "/home/ezeno/vboard.py", line 114, in __init__
self.device = uinput.Device(list(key_mapping.keys()))
~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/uinput/__init__.py", line 190, in __in
it__
self.__uinput_fd = fd or fdopen()
~~~~~~^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/uinput/__init__.py", line 88, in fdope
n
return _libsuinput.suinput_open()
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/uinput/__init__.py", line 74, in _open
_error_handler
raise OSError(code, msg)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Failed to open the uinput device: permission denied

4

I have updated this package (the project was abandoned). Now there is no need to run it with sudo. Please see Vboard: A wayland compatible on-screen-keyboard with modifier keys for details.