SOLVED - SDDM Virtual Keyboard

[bubba66]

I have just switched from Fedora KDE Spin to Mageia 7.1 Plasma and am enjoying the effort that has been put into Mageia, I am using a touchscreen convertible tablet that has a physical key board and can also be keyboard free, this is great when logged in as I can use Onboard as a virtual keyboard.

If I lock the screen or restart there is no virtual keyboard button meaning if I do have the hardware KB with me I cannot log back in!

Can anyone advise me how to setup the virtual keyboard for the lock screen and login screen?

Thanks

[doktor5000]

Hi there, what sddm theme do you use?
Do you have qtvirtualkeyboard5 package installed? And what is configured in /etc/sddm.conf for InputMethod ?
You would need to change the latter to qtvirtualkeyboard and restart sddm to be able to use it.

FWIW, this has been disabled by default, see https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/952 for the reasons.

[bubba66]

H thank you for your reply, I found that suggestion on searching the forum and it had no effect, so I conclude that the qtvirtualkeyboard5 package is not installed. Weirdly I have KDE Neon user edition on another machine and the virtual keyboard works fine; with SDDM theme I have tried all three that are in the system settings and have not added any others it is set to Breeze at present.

[bubba66]

Answered my own question, I located qtvirtualkeyboard5 rpm package for Mageia and installed it. I now have full functionality for a virtual keyboard on my login scree.

[doktor5000]

I located qtvirtualkeyboard5 rpm package for Mageia from https://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/index.html and installed it.

Please don't do that, searching for distro packages via some search engine. You could have just installed it via normal software management: http://doc.mageia.org/mcc/7/en/content/ ... ement.html

[bubba66]

Sorry of course it makes sense - I removed the link.

[doktor5000]

No need to remove the link. It's just for the sake of keeping your own system working fine and not breaking it with some arbitrary packages

[bubba66]

That's cool as with the virtual keyboard on the login screen and a couple of scripts I have the best system I have had for about a year. I have managed to get auto rotation working nicely with KDE so I can use the device keyboard free as a tablet, it has excellent battery life on Mageia plus good WiFi support.

Love it 👍