how to access settings / change themes and language?

[tubbadu]

Fedora 35 KDE spin, wayland session

if I long-tap the emoji button and select Settings... in the popup plasma system settings are opened
how can I access maliit keyboard settings? I'd like to change the theme to a dark one and perhaps the language

[iyanmv]

I have same question regarding the theme.

[dobey]

Unfortunately, Plasma desktop settings doesn't have any UI for configuring maliit itself, though Plasma mobile settings app does. I'm not sure if installing the kcm from the mobile settings repo will work inside the desktop plasma settings, or maybe you can just install and run the mobile settings to get to it.

Aside from that, one can use gsettings in a terminal, or dconf-editor (or whatever the KDE equivalent might be), to edit settings directly.

[tubbadu]

Aside from that, one can use gsettings in a terminal, or dconf-editor (or whatever the KDE equivalent might be), to edit settings directly.

Thanks for the reply!
What is the correct syntax to edit it with gconfig? I can't find the configuration files neither in ~/.config nor /usr/share/maliit

[dobey]

Thanks for the reply! What is the correct syntax to edit it with gconfig? I can't find the configuration files neither in ~/.config nor /usr/share/maliit

Settings are stored via GSettings in dconf. You can find the schema under the data/schemas/ directory in this repo, or normally under /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/ when installed. Or gsettings list-keys org.maliit.keyboard.maliit to see what settings can be set.

[kamons34]

E.g. to change the enabled languages from English and Emoji to English, German and Emoji use:
gsettings set org.maliit.keyboard.maliit enabled-languages "['en', 'de', 'emoji']"

[codeandcreate]

The problem does still exists. The workaround via gsettings doesn't work either for me.
It doesn't matter what languages are enabled and that language is set via commandline it remains on the english keyboard for me.

• Distro: Bazzite 42 (FROM Fedora Kinoite)
• KDE Plasma 6.3.4

[Mooling0602]

mooling@mooling-nabu ~> gsettings set org.maliit.keyboard.maliit enabled-languages "['en', 'cn', 'emoji']"
mooling@mooling-nabu ~> gsettings set org.maliit.keyboard.maliit enabled-languages "['cn', 'emoji']"
mooling@mooling-nabu ~> 

And see this screenrecord, the commands are useless😭

2025-05-27.11-50-08.mp4

[hongphong177]

I also get the same issue. enabled-language only working with 'en' and 'de'

[dobey]

Well, cn is the wrong value. If you want Pinyin, you want zh-hans and for Chewing layout you want zh-hant in the settings.

[codeandcreate]

@dobey why have you closed the issue? maybe "cn" was the wrong setting. but with "de" for example it doesn't work either like i said earlier!

[dobey]

@dobey why have you closed the issue? maybe "cn" was the wrong setting. but with "de" for example it doesn't work either like i said earlier!

That isn't the "issue" reported here. In fact, it was a question, not an actual issue. The question isn't why I closed it now, but why it wasn't closed three years ago when that question was answered. You are welcome to open some other issue about your issue, but it's probably better opened against Bazzite, as it doesn't seem to be an issue with maliit-keyboard itself, but rather perhaps an issue with how things are built there, or perhaps a patch they may have to a library used by, or to maliit.

[Mooling0602]

Well, cn is the wrong value. If you want Pinyin, you want zh-hans and for Chewing layout you want zh-hant in the settings.

This works, so I think this problem can may be marked as solved. But I have to say, the experience for typing Chinese characters is very bad. I'll open another issue and make a screenrecord when I have time.
Anyway thanks for your replies, helped a lot.