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horga83

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Registered: 2022-04-09

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Kicad running under wayland, dialog input not working.

I have noticed that running Kicad under GNOME 44 or 45 and Wayland, that often for example, editing component values, it will work a few times then input entry will no longer focus and accept text.
Even starting and stopping Kicad does not fix the issue.  Logout and start again and it will work one or two times and then stops.

The only way to solve this is to start GNOME under X.

Anyone seen this type of behavior, any clues or suggestions?

Me thinks once Wayland is the default with other distros (looking at you Ubuntu and Fedora) there will be a flood of applications that have issues.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Kicad running under wayland, dialog input not working.

How does it look if you run it with/force GDK_BACKEND=x11 ?

skunktrader

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Registered: 2010-02-14

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Re: Kicad running under wayland, dialog input not working.

The kicad dev team is aware of the issues https://forum.kicad.info/t/gnome-is-goi … -x11/45454. Apparently related to current wx compatibility. You might want to add your issues to the thread or the open bug reports

horga83

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Registered: 2022-04-09

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Re: Kicad running under wayland, dialog input not working.

Thank you for the suggestion.

Unfortunately running with GDK_BACKEND=x11 does not solve the problem. 
Three or four edits of properties such as component values and then one can no long enter text to change the value.

OpusOne

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Registered: 2023-05-31

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Re: Kicad running under wayland, dialog input not working.

I am running both KiCad 6 and 7 on KDE Plasma/Wayland, and didn't encounter this issue. At least, not as badly as you have.
I have noticed that selecting text entry fields with the TAB key tended to stop working correctly after a few attempts (which is already annoying when you do a lot of edits), but not that they wouldn't accept text entry altogether. Selecting the field with the mouse still works.

Another thing I've noticed is that the ESC key to discard a dialog doesn't always work.

I have seen that it was a wxWidgets issue basically, but it must be linked to a relatively recent change, as it used to all work properly (at least as far as I'm concerned, on my setup) on Wayland a few weeks ago.