Can't Change the Maliit Keyboard Theme in EndeavourOS (Arch Linux)

[k4ever]

I'm using Maliit as the virtual keyboard for KDE Plasma 5.26 on a Surface Pro 8 using EndeavourOS. I'm using a dark system theme and I can't change the theme for the keyboard. I've tried:

gsettings set org.maliit.keyboard.maliit theme BreezeDark

It doesn't do anything. Selecting settings in the Maliit keyboard itself also does nothing. What is the proper way/command (that will actually work) to change the theme? (Examples please!)

[tbsteinb]

The version in the AUR has a new method for setting the theme. You need to set the QT_QUICK_CONTROLS_STYLE environment variable to org.kde.desktop and it will automatically pull the color scheme your desktop uses. The easiest way to do that is to create a script /usr/local/bin/maliit-keyboard that exports the above variable and executes /usr/bin/maliit-keyboard, then copy /usr/share/applications/com.github.maliit.keyboard.desktop to $HOME/.local/share/applications and update it to point to the script you wrote. Then just change $HOME/.config/kwinrc to use the new desktop file instead.

[k4ever]

Thank you! I set it as a global variable in /etc/environment. It works great! Is there a reason not to set the variable as global?

[tbsteinb]

Thank you! I set it as a global variable in /etc/environment. It works great! Is there a reason not to set the variable as global?

Just saw this. Setting it globally can break some Qt apps if they weren't designed for KDE (I think OBS was an app that was iffy in this regard, but I might be mistaken). Setting it globally might be fine though. Just depends on what apps you use.