Turning on sticky keys in Wayland has no effect. STEPS TO REPRODUCE Turn on sticky keys in system settings -> accessibility Press & release shift Press a letter key OBSERVED RESULT A lower case letter is typed EXPECTED RESULT An upper case letter is typed
I'm not sure that it's wired anywhere in on wayland.
Can confirm on: Operating System: Fedora Linux 35 KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.89.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.15.12-200.fc35.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland
Can confirm on: Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.91.0 Qt Version: 5.15.3 Kernel Version: 5.16.14-arch1-1 Graphics Platform: Wayland
This bug unfortunately makes KDE completely unusable under Wayland for those that need this feature. Given that a number of major distros are pushing to make Wayland default, I'm hoping to draw attention to it before that happens.
Still present on: Operating System: Fedora Linux 36 KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.93.0 Qt Version: 5.15.3 Kernel Version: 5.18.5-200.fc36.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland The setting in ~/.config/kaccessrc is correct (and reflects the state of the respective checkbox in SystemSettings): [Keyboard] StickyKeys=true (This is the only thing that's stopping me from switching to Wayland. If there's a manual workaround, I'd love to know about it.)
See https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2016-March/027419.html for some discussion how sticky keys and related things could be implemented on Wayland TL;DR it's something that the compositor/kwin needs to do in its input processing, possibly with help from xkbcommon, but as far as I can tell no relevant work on xkbcommon was done
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/3365
(In reply to Nicolas Fella from comment #6) May I add a future feature request to this.. Make the "Lock Keys Status" indicator in the system-tray aware of the status of the sticky-keys.
(In reply to Dan Snis from comment #8) > (In reply to Nicolas Fella from comment #6) > > May I add a future feature request to this.. > Make the "Lock Keys Status" indicator in the system-tray aware of the status > of the sticky-keys. Sounds reasonable. Can you please make a new report in kdeplasma-addons | Keyboard Indicator for this so we can track it properly?
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/3365 makes the basic functionality work on Wayland. For the various options the KCM provides see these follow-up bugs: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464452 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464453 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464456 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464457 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464458 It would be great to have some input on which of these are most important/should be prioritized or which of them may be unimportant enough to drop them