Why does Maliit work on desktop? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by penquin@lemm.ee to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

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Hi all, I have a desktop and laptop with a touchscreen. Both running Plasma/Wayland. English is my second language and I search things in my language often. Maliit works just fine on the laptop, but it's basically a dud on the desktop. I can only enable and disable it. It never shows nor work at all on the desktop. Tried onboard, gnomes on screen keyboard, and that thing is useless, too. Anyway to make Maliit work or is there an alternative? I really need it for the desktop. Thanks.

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[-] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 6 points 2 months ago

It could be that your distro ships Plasma 6, but the keyboard is still qt5 based, so they don't talk well to eachother?

[-] penquin@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

I am on endeavour OS and yes, I'm on plasma 6, but where do I get Maliit qt6 from? I downloaded this one from the arch repos, so not sure where else to go.

[-] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 2 points 2 months ago

There is no maliit for qt6 yet. It's still a work in progress according to the github repo issues.

[-] penquin@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Zamunda's environment variable helped make it work, but it only ever does English.

[-] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 1 points 2 months ago

Awesome. So different library versions does not conflict here, good to know. :)

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