SUMMARY STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Enable a virtual keyboard in system settings. 2. Press the ^ icon in the system tray to bring up the virtual keyboard. 3. Inside the virtual keyboard, do whatever is needed to hide the virtual keyboard again. 4. Press the ^ again to make it reappear. OBSERVED RESULT The virtual keyboard does not reappear in 4. If I click on some random other element in the panel, or focus a different window from the current one, then 4 will work again. EXPECTED RESULT 4 should make the virtual keyboard reappear. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux: NixOS unstable KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0 Qt Version: 6.10.0 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Happens with both maliit and plasma-keyboard. Running on a Framework Laptop 12 in tablet mode.
Can confirm.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/8498
Git commit 97c402e1dac0a6354c151c2e57852615c5e2613e by Xaver Hugl. Committed on 28/11/2025 at 12:10. Pushed by zamundaaa into branch 'master'. inputmethod: send empty surrounding text when the input method is force activated Otherwise it doesn't show anymore after the input method hides itself directly. I don't know why exactly that is, but both plasma-keyboard and Maliit behave this way, so it'll be best to handle that in KWin. M +1 -0 src/inputmethod.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/commit/97c402e1dac0a6354c151c2e57852615c5e2613e
Git commit eef37d2ab7aed83d73f5788ef9cfa613b0654492 by Xaver Hugl. Committed on 05/12/2025 at 17:00. Pushed by zamundaaa into branch 'Plasma/6.5'. inputmethod: send empty surrounding text when the input method is force activated Otherwise it doesn't show anymore after the input method hides itself directly. I don't know why exactly that is, but both plasma-keyboard and Maliit behave this way, so it'll be best to handle that in KWin. (cherry picked from commit 97c402e1dac0a6354c151c2e57852615c5e2613e) Co-authored-by: Xaver Hugl <xaver.hugl@kde.org> M +1 -0 src/inputmethod.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/commit/eef37d2ab7aed83d73f5788ef9cfa613b0654492