Can anyone please port the wayland functionality to X11? The keyboard is great but there is no way to make these settings unless you create an autostart.sh in /etc/profile.d. But even then you can't access it in apps like Chromium, since there is no button to make it appear. It would be really nice to have the resizing feature from Wayland and additionally have a button. I know I could just use Wayland, but it doesn'T support my Wacom tablet.
It won't work.
Why not? You can make it appear automatically with a simple hack by making a script containing export QT_IM_MODULE=qtvirtualkeyboard an putting it in /etc/profile.d/. The problem is that the have no control over it then. It just always appears and you can't turn it off, unless you reboot.
With that flag the relevant Qt app launches the keyboard in-process. That won't help you use it in Chromium, button or not.
Sure it would! If there was an icon in the taskbar that I could make it appear with, I could tap on it while being in Chromium. Best solution would be a shell command to male it appear with. Then I could link this command to a swipe gesture. It is really cumbersome: Firefox works, but it does not have swipe gestures Chromium has swipe gestures, but it doesn’t work with virtual keyboards xD
Chrome cannot talk to this virtual keyboard.
Well, then it can’t. But that was not what I was asking for, was it? I wanted to be able to activate the keyboard in the panel like in Wayland.