Version: unspecified (using Devel) OS: Linux I would like to use the virtual keyboard plasmoid to only display the keyboard layout for the current input language. Possibly in a non-intrusive, non-interactive way, like KWin can permanently display selected windows translucently in a corner of the screen (shortcut ctrl+win+t here). This feature is useful, when one wants to type text in a language that is not common to him, like chinese, cyrillic, arabic, etc, and he still has to use his european keyboard, but does not know where the keys of the other language are. Reproducible: Didn't try
The application I am referring to might be "plasmaboard", not kvkbd. I just know it shows up in the list as "Virtuelle Tastatur" in german. kde-4.4.92
Well, I think you should use common plasma features for this. You can put the keyboard on the dashboard or simply leave it open from the panel. I don't think that it is wise or possible to implement an extra feature for that in plasmaboard.
There are some inconveniences attached to leaving the keyboard open: 1) I cannot see what is underneath, thus it takes a considerably large portion of my screen space. 2) I cannot click on what is underneath it, which also takes working space. My idea to (1) was to make the keyboard transparent. The idea for (2) is for the keyboard to not accept mouse clicks, so that KWin/X would send these events to the widget behind the keyboard.
There is not much I can do here. Making something "transparent" for clicks I already failed when using the plasma libs. As said, I think you should think of a plasma solution here. Dashboard, panel - don't know, but it's the way to go.
Another hint: Call "plasmoidviewer plasmaboard" from console. It will open plasmaboard in a normal window with kwin decorations - so you can use all kwin features on it.
Just discovered http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/4362, which mentions myOverlayWidget->setAttribute(Qt::WA_TransparentForMouseEvents); as a possible solution. Whether it works in this case probably depends on how Plasmoids are rendered internally.
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(In reply to Björn Ruberg from comment #5) > Another hint: > Call "plasmoidviewer plasmaboard" from console. It will open plasmaboard in > a normal window with kwin decorations - so you can use all kwin features on > it. Might have been a solution for this.