Linux @lemmy.ml gwendolencopper @kbin.social 5mo ago

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...

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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.
- @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 :(
Better stick to X11 for now. Accessibility in Wayland is still being sorted.
- Yes poorly. The input method protocol was done by Purism (which says something as that company seems dead or whatever) and then basically untouched.
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?
- @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

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