plasma6 lock-screen: virtual keyboard not working

[pbek]

Describe the bug

At the plasma6 lock-screen, the virtual keyboard (button on the bottom left) is not working (Wayland or X11 doesn't matter).

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Enable plasma6 in your configuration with services.desktopManager.plasma6.enable = true; in nixos-unstable
2. Reboot and see the lock-screen
3. Try to click the virtual keyboard on the bottom left, nothing seems to happen (works in plasma5)

Expected behavior

Upon clicking the virtual keyboard button, a virtual keyboard shows up to enter the password, just like in plasma5.

Notify maintainers

Something for you, @K900?

Metadata

Please run nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m" and paste the result.

[user@system:~]$ nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
- system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 6.6.23, NixOS, 24.05 (Uakari), 24.05.20240403.08b9151`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.18.2`
 - nixpkgs: `/run/current-system/nixpkgs`

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[K900]

Interesting. It works for me on Wayland at least.

[pbek]

Really? It doesn't work for me on devices with Wayland (with AMD or Intel GPU) or X11.
Need the Virtual Keyboard, because the Asus ROG Ally only has a touchscreen. 😁 Had to fall back to plasma5! 😱😉

[betalars]

I can confirm this. It used to work before plasma 6 and now the button just seems to switch keyboard layouts I think.

[pbek]

Still an issue for me with Plasma 6.0.4 (Wayland), KDE Framework 6.1.0.

• DE: Plasma 6.0.4 (Wayland)
• WM: kwin
• CPU: Intel i5-8250U (8) @ 3.400GHz
• GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 620

nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m":

• system: "x86_64-linux"
• host os: Linux 6.6.29, NixOS, 24.05 (Uakari), 24.05.20240502.63c3a29
• multi-user?: yes
• sandbox: yes
• version: nix-env (Nix) 2.18.2
• nixpkgs: /run/current-system/nixpkgs

[BeiNacht]

Any progress on this bug? I also have it under wayland. Havent tested Xorg

[K900]

This should have been fixed upstream a long time ago. Are you on 24.05?

[pbek]

I am on latest unstable. Still an issue, even under Wayland.

• system: "x86_64-linux"
• host os: Linux 6.6.59, NixOS, 25.05 (Warbler), 25.05.20241119.23e89b7
• multi-user?: yes
• sandbox: yes
• version: nix-env (Nix) 2.24.10
• channels(root): "nixos"
• nixpkgs: /run/current-system/nixpkgs

When I click the virtual keyboard button in the lock screen, nothing happens.

[K900]

And you have maliit-keyboard installed?

[pbek]

And you have maliit-keyboard installed?

Oh. No, I don't. Should I have it installed?

[K900]

Yes, we don't install it by default, though maybe we should.

[BeiNacht]

This should have been fixed upstream a long time ago. Are you on 24.05?

24.05 and unstable. Have this problem at least since plasma6.

Installed maliit-keyboard aswell doenst works, cause was looking in KDE communities for a fix. Found this issue only yesterday. What i read was that kdePackages.qtvirtualkeyboard is used in sddm and this is installed by default
I wasnt also able to find any log which gives me informations. Any ideas?

[pbek]

And you have maliit-keyboard installed?

Installing it also didn't make the virtual keyboard at the lock screen work for me.

[K900]

You may also need to install maliit-framework.

[pbek]

That came with maliit-keyboard. 🤔