SUMMARY virtual keyboard does not appear STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. lock screen 2. click virtual keyboard 3. a message appears saying that the virtual keyboard has been activated and disappears 4. nothing else happens OBSERVED RESULT nothing happens EXPECTED RESULT the virtual keyboard to appear SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20210730 KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.84.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.13.4-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 8 × AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Radeon RX 570 Series ADDITIONAL INFORMATION it works fine in X11
Created attachment 140475 [details] No Virtual keyboard in KDE at all Seems the problem is that there is NO virtual Keyboard installed to show up in the screen locker
zypper search keyboard | grep -iE "(virtual)" i+ | libQt5VirtualKeyboard5 | Qt5 Virtual Keyboard library | package i+ | libQt6VirtualKeyboard6 | Qt 6 VirtualKeyboard library | package | libqt5-qtvirtualkeyboard | Qt 5 Virtual Keyboard | srcpackage i+ | libqt5-qtvirtualkeyboard | Qt 5 Virtual Keyboard | package i+ | libqt5-qtvirtualkeyboard-devel | Qt Development Kit | package | libqt5-qtvirtualkeyboard-examples | Qt5 virtualkeyboard examples | package i+ | libqt5-qtvirtualkeyboard-hunspell | Hunspell Plugin for the Qt5 Virtual Keyboard | package | libqt5-qtvirtualkeyboard-private-headers-devel | Non-ABI stable API for the Qt5 Virtual Keyboard | package | qt6-virtualkeyboard | Framework for writing or integrating input methods and engines for Qt 6 | srcpackage | qt6-virtualkeyboard | Framework for writing or integrating input methods and engines for Qt 6 | package | qt6-virtualkeyboard-devel | Qt 6 VirtualKeyboard library - Development files | package | qt6-virtualkeyboard-docs | Framework for writing or integrating input methods and engines for Qt 6 | srcpackage | qt6-virtualkeyboard-docs-html | Documentation for qt6-virtualkeyboard-docs in HTML format | package | qt6-virtualkeyboard-docs-qch | Documentation for qt6-virtualkeyboard-docs in QCH format | package | qt6-virtualkeyboard-examples | Examples for the qt6-virtualkeyboard modules | package | qt6-virtualkeyboard-imports | Qt 6 VirtualKeyboard QML files and plugins | package | qt6-virtualkeyboard-private-devel | Non-ABI stable API for the Qt 6 VirtualKeyboard library | package
zypper install libqt5-qtvirtualk* zypper install qt6-virtualk* Rebooted, tested it, and the virtual keyboard in kscreenlocker still won't appear
We have ported away from the use of QtVirtualKeyboard which we used to use, and now require the use of the Maliit virtual keyboard, which works much better. Unfortunately, it is still not packaged on openSUSE distros. See https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1184014. Please go prod the openSUSE packagers to finally get this done. :)
Thank you very much.