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gunjah292

Member

From: Hamburg

Registered: 2011-05-05

Posts: 186

Is there a way to make the qt5 virtual keyboard appear automatically?

So I have the qt5-virtualkeyboard installed. The only place where I can actually use it, is in SDDM login. Apart from that there is no way to configure or open it apparently. I might be wrong, but I have been searching on the internet and didn't find anything.

Last edited by gunjah292 (2019-03-03 16:30:58)

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KDE Plasma, ThinkPad X380 Yoga, Intel Core i7-8550U, Intel UHD Graphics 620, 512GB PCIe-NVMe SSD (OPAL 2.0), 16GB PC4-19200 (2400 MHz)

arojas

Developer

From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 2,305

Re: Is there a way to make the qt5 virtual keyboard appear automatically?

export QT_IM_MODULE=qtvirtualkeyboard

gunjah292

Member

From: Hamburg

Registered: 2011-05-05

Posts: 186

Re: Is there a way to make the qt5 virtual keyboard appear automatically?

@arojas: That did not change anything, as far as i can tell

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arojas

Developer

From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 2,305

Re: Is there a way to make the qt5 virtual keyboard appear automatically?

What did you do exactly? If you put that in a terminal it will only affect applications that you launch from that terminal, you need to add it to your profile and restart the session

gunjah292

Member

From: Hamburg

Registered: 2011-05-05

Posts: 186

Re: Is there a way to make the qt5 virtual keyboard appear automatically?

So I made a file in /etc/profile.d/ called qt5virtualkeyboard.sh and chmodded it. The keyboard pops up now, which is really nice. How can I make this work only in Tablet mode? And is there a way to configure they keyboard further?

Last edited by gunjah292 (2019-03-05 09:47:08)

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KDE Plasma, ThinkPad X380 Yoga, Intel Core i7-8550U, Intel UHD Graphics 620, 512GB PCIe-NVMe SSD (OPAL 2.0), 16GB PC4-19200 (2400 MHz)