Bug 298816

Summary:	rooted kwrite doesn't trigger the virtual keyboard
Product:	[Unmaintained] Active	Reporter:	Sascha Manns <saigkill>
Component:	Keyboard	Assignee:	active
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	lamarque, notmart, thomas.pfeiffer
Priority:	LO
Version:	PA 2
Target Milestone:	unscheduled
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends on:	290166
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Description Sascha Manns 2012-04-25 16:36:28 UTC

I've tried out to run kwrite with root-permissions. In the Konsole i've typed: kdesu kwrite /etc/fstab. The KWrite comes up, i can access the fstab, but no keyboard is visible.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. kdesu kwrite anything
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
No virtual keyboard

Expected Results:  
virtual keyboard

Balsam Professional 12.1 and used the standard repo, and our devel repo is added too.

Comment 1 Lamarque V. Souza 2012-04-28 04:28:12 UTC

You must start a new virtualkeyboard instance for each user you run with. You can do that by running the command below:

$ su -
# plasma-keyboardcontainer
# export QT_IM_MODULE=PlasmaInputContext
# kwrite

Comment 2 Thomas Pfeiffer 2012-12-06 21:41:56 UTC

With Maliit, the keyboard appears when starting kwrite as root, but it has the wrong skin.