How to get KDE virtual keyboard on Debian

[Yvan Masson]

Le 28/03/2023 à 11:40, Yvan Masson a écrit :
> Le 28/03/2023 à 03:39, Duncan a écrit :
>> Yvan Masson posted on Mon, 20 Mar 2023 20:39:23 +0100 as excerpted:
>>
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> Using Debian testing, I can not find how to enable virtual keyboard.
>>> I installed package `qtvirtualkeyboard-plugin` and it works with SDDM,
>>> but not within KDE.
>>>
>>> When I go to KDE preferences, there is something strange:
>>> - If running with Wayland, there is a "Input Devices -> Virtual
>>> Keyboard" section, but "None" is the only choice.
>>> - If running with X11, there is no "Virtual Keyboard" section inside
>>> "Input Devices".
>>>
>>> Do I need to install a specific package? Or should I configure
>>> something?
>>
>> No real answer here, but I've wondered the same -- at idle-curiosity-
>> priority-level, so I hadn't even looked for candidate packages until your
>> post prodded me to do so.  Unfortunately, here on gentoo I come up with
>> only the same single plausible package you tried, qtvirtualkeyboard, 
>> so no
>> help there.
>>
>> And I too get only "none" as a wayland option (no X besides xwayland
>> installed), tho I imagine that's to be expected without whatever virtual
>> keyboard component installed.
>>
>> Three other possibilities come to mind, however:
>>
>> 1) Maybe it's a stub that for now only works on plasma-mobile, stubbed 
>> out
>> on the desktop as they intend to add the functionality there, but haven't
>> yet.  With frameworks 5 feature-frozen as they prepare 
>> frameworks/plasma6,
>> if this is the case, it could remain so until 6. (Regarding 6, gentoo/kde
>> dev comments suggest it's not expected until late year.  And of course 
>> the
>> first releases can't be expected to be as stable as the mature 5, so an
>> actually usable release is more likely sometime next year, depending on
>> your stability expectations.)
>>
>> 2) (Less likely?) Perhaps the virtual keyboard doesn't show up if 
>> there's a
>> physical keyboard plugged in.  Since you say it's working in SDDM, what
>> about unplugging the physical keyboard before logging in there, using the
>> virtual keyboard to login, and seeing if by some chance it continues to
>> work and/or populates the kcm with something other than "none", then?
>>
>> 3) Maybe the virtual keyboard has to be run as a system service?  But I'd
>> guess that's how you're getting it to work in SDDM, so I don't know...
>> Maybe it needs to be configured as a user service as well (started by the
>> systemd user instance)?
>>
>> Whatever the case, I'm curious on the resolution, so I'll be following 
>> this
>> thread with interest as well.
>>
So I have asked on discuss.kde.org and Nate Graham gave me an answer. 
Disclaimer: you were right :-).

https://discuss.kde.org/t/how-to-enable-virtual-keyboard-included-in-kde/264/2

> Even if you do not give an answer, thanks for you detailed answer 
> Duncan: your 3 possibilities are interesting.
> 
> As a temporary workaround, and as suggested by someone on 
> debian-user at lists.debian.org, I would use xvkbd under X11 for what I was 
> trying to do: using OpenBoard (so X11 is required) on KDE with 
> interactive video projector.

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